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Pride is a feeling of pleasure at your achievements

• A feeling of happiness that you get when you or someone you know does something good, difficult, etc. Merriam Webster
• Pride: A feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of one’s close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired. Oxford Dictionary
• Arrogance,  Vanity,  Self-esteem,  Self-respect,  Transcending the ego,  Humility,  Honor,  Pleasure

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Pride is thinking highly of yourself, sometimes excessively so

• Pride: A high or inordinate opinion of one’s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. Dictionary.com
• Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself. Baruch Spinoza
• Conceit: Excessively proud of oneself; vain. Oxford Dictionary

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Pride can be a feeling of superiority to others

• Pride: A feeling that you are more important or better than other people. Merriam Webster

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Pride is a natural passion that takes many forms and can be hard to subdue

• There is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. Benjamin Franklin
• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder
• Pride follows many paths, speaks in many voices and comes in many forms… Lance Rund

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Pride in moderation can be a healthy virtue that brings rewards

• Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope. Oliver G. Wilson
• If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. Paul Bryant
• We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had. Coleman Young
• Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. Bryce Courtenay
• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. Paul Bryant
• Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. George Chapman
• Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Pride in moderation can be a healthy source of self esteem

• Self-esteem contemplates what needs to be done and says, ‘I can.’ Pride contemplates what has been accomplished and says, ‘I did.’ Nathaniel Branden
• You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become. Jeanine Henning Nhakira
• Pride: A feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people. Merriam Webster
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Be proud to be you …

• I am here to live, to love, to give, to grow, to serve, to explore life, and explore my soul within. I am not here to be who society expects me to be. My thoughts are my own and I am proud to live in the skin of my very own authentic self. I am proud to be me. Melanie Moushigian
• Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive. Gerard Way
• I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. Michel de Montaigne
• You need to take pride in what God has given you. Joel Osteen

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… without needing to be superior to others

• People of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others. They do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden

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Take a healthy pride in your progress and accomplishments

• It is important that you recognize your progress and take pride in your accomplishments. Share your achievements with others. Brag a little. The recognition and support of those around you is nurturing. Rosemarie Rossetti
• Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go. Christian Larson
• All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself. Michael Crichton
• It is true that excessive modesty is by no means an undiluted good, and needs a corrective. Many people are in the habit of brushing away their qualities and achievements with some kind of “it’s nothing really” reflex. Why shouldn’t we openly acknowledge and be proud of the good things about ourselves and what we’ve done? Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini
• Take inventory of your good reasons for self-esteem today. Write down what your ‘BAG’ is. Blessings—who and what you are thankful for. Accomplishments—what you have done that you’re proud of so far. Goals—what your dreams and ambitions are. Denis Waitley
• Lasting happiness cannot be gained through consumption. Happiness requires active participation in what we value. To do things well, enjoy them, and take pride in what we have done — these fertilize happiness. Richard Koch
• Self-esteem contemplates what needs to be done and says, ‘I can.’ Pride contemplates what has been accomplished and says, ‘I did.’ Nathaniel Branden
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Take a healthy pride in your work

• No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work. Hosea Ballou
• If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.  Maxwell Anderson
• Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. Thorstein Veblen
• A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work – the pride that makes business an art. Henry Doherty
• If one takes pride in one’s craft, you won’t let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. Paul Keating
• One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half- finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. Og Mandino

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Take a healthy pride in your discoveries

• What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought — an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea. Mark Twain
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Take a healthy pride in your values and principles

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Laura Schlesinger
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Take a healthy pride in your pain and the hard times you’ve come through

• Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none. Lois Lowry
• Drop the drama about your difficult past. Be proud of your time in hell. Steve Chandler
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Make choices you’ll be proud of in the future

• The most important choice we can make in life is the decision to follow our hearts and trust our intuition. If you listen to your heart and have the courage to act boldly, you will be able to look back on your choices and proudly say, “I did it my way.” Amanda Harvey
• It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach

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Help others to find a healthy sense of pride

• You can’t give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride. Charleszetta Waddles

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Self-discipline brings a healthy sense of pride

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. Gary Ryan Blair
• Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self- esteem, and personal satisfaction. Margaret Thatcher

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Pride is beneficial in small quantities, but can be poisonous in excess

• Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. Frederick Saunders
• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self- destroying or ever murderous obsession. Iris Murdoch

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Excessive pride, many argue, is one of the great vices …

• Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. Samuel Johnson
• Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of. Benjamin Franklin
• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. G. K. Chesterton
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… a deadly sin that spawns a host of other sins

• lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell. Francis Quarles
• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares. John Chancellor
• The Bible and several other self-help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine
• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. Alain Rene Lesage
• Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride. Jonathan Aitken
• As proud as Lucifer. Philip James Bailey
• Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage. Vladimir Odoevsky
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Excessive pride can make you pay a heavy price

• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. Benjamin Franklin
• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Thomas Hobbes
• Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Henry Bolingbroke
• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Brontë
• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson
• He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. William Shakespeare
• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche
• You wear your honor like a suit of armor… You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move. George R.R. Martin

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Excessive pride can weaken and belittle you

• Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. Johann Kaspar Lavater
• To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. Jean Baptiste Masillon
• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton John Sheen
• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. Criss Jami
• The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire
• When people are wrapped up in themselves, they make a pretty small package. John Ruskin
• The less worth of a man, the greater his pride. Yukito Kishiro
• Conceit is God’s gift to little men. Bruce Barton
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Excessive pride can make a fool of you

• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope
• A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. Confucius
• Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance. Paul David Tripp
• What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope
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Excessive pride is always vulnerable to a fall …

• Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. Criss Jami
• My pride fell with my fortunes. William Shakespeare
• Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 (Bible)
• He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.
• Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. Mark Twain
• Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. George Chapman
• Pride will have a fall. English proverb
• Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. Alexander Pope
• We rise in glory as we sink in pride. Andrew Young
• Pride comes before a fall. Proverb
• When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Bible
• Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after. Proverb

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… and always lives in fear of being torn down

• Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one’s status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one’s inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. Lao Tzu
• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen
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Excessive pride exaggerates the faults of others and blinds you to your own

• It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride. Brian Herbert &Keven J. Anderson
• None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
• Pride is the mask we make of our faults. Hebrew Proverb
• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. George Eliot

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Excessive pride can make you close minded in your opinions

• One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion; while nothing is so foolish and baseless. Jeffrey R. Holland
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Excessive pride can make you always wants to be right, no matter what

• Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.  Ezra T. Benson
• All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. Albert Camus
• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side. Oscar Levant
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Excessive pride gets you into trouble and keeps you there

• Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
• At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense. Alexander Pope

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Excessive pride can lead to mistakes

• Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. Criss Jami
• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin
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Excessive pride in your intellect can make you stupid

• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Simone Weil
• And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. Leo Tolstoy
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Excessive pride stops you from learning

• With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. Criss Jami
• Too much learning makes one proud. One must bend one’s head, realizing the limitations of reason. It can only take you to the gate and it has to be left behind when you enter the realm of the Spirit.  You have to unlearn what you have learned and become as simple and guileless as a child.  Papa Ramdas
• Humility is the acceptance of the possibility that someone else can teach you something else you do not know already, especially about yourself. Conversely, pride and arrogance close the door to the mind.  Arthur Deikman
• Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can’t terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. John Dewey
• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self- esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Thomas Szasz
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Excessive pride closes you to the blessings of gratitude

• You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. John Ruskin
• How black and base a vice ingratitude is, may be seen in those vices with which it is always in combination, pride and hard-heartedness, or want of compassion. Robert South
• Much of the seeming ingratitude in life comes from our magnifying of our own acts, our minifying of the acts of others. William Jordan
• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
• The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of wilful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more than another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. Alexander Pope
• There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received – envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other’s benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Joseph Hall
• There neither is, or ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud, who was not equally ungrateful. Robert South
• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Walter Savage Landor
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Excessive pride blocks your connection to God

• Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. Andrew Murray
• As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. C. S. Lewis
• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s. Ezra Taft Benson
• It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart. Don Williams, Jr
• The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. Soren Kierkegaard
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Excessive pride is unpleasant to be around

• Pride is the only disease known to humans that makes everyone sick except the one who has it. Buddy Robinson
• Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. Hartman Rector, Jr.
• Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility. David Hume
• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. Baruch Spinoza

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Excessive pride can destroy loving relationships

• Even when the relationship is a good one, love can be spoiled by attachment with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the “souvenirs” of love, the scars of attachment. Sogyal Rinpoche
• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. John Ruskin

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Excessive pride leads to arrogance; an exaggerated sense of superiority

• Arrogance is pride polluted by the child-self. Pride is a natural and self-rewarding feeling of worth and efficacy which results from achievement. Arrogance, on the other hand, is a feeling of superiority and entitlement which completely annihilates the “we” for the “I.” W. T. Watts
• Pride is the mother of arrogance. Toba Beta
• Arrogance is believing you are better than others and behaving accordingly.
• Arrogance: Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities. Oxford Dictionary
• Arrogance: An insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people. Merriam Webster Dictionary
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Excessive pride leads to vanity; a craving to be highly esteemed by others

• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Jane Austen
• Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Benjamin Franklin
• Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.
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Excessive pride does much harm and damage in the world

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. T. S. Eliot
• What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth… and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. Nikola Tesla

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Pride thrives on feeling superior to others …

• Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you. Eckhart Tolle
• In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self- esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. Eckhart Tolle
• There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway
• Yes, there are times when the gold medal only goes to the winner. But not in the race of life, where the winners are those who are superior not to others but to their former selves. Robert K. Cooper
• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It *is*–is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self- effacement. Dag Hammarskjöld
• The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. William Hazlitt

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… and constantly compares itself with others in order to do so

• We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire
• As soon as there was two there was pride. John Donne
• Pride: A feeling that you are more important or better than other people. Merriam Webster
• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. C. S. Lewis
• Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others. Samuel Johnson
• There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. Elbert Hubbard
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Excessive pride thrives on ignorance

• By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least. John Gay
• Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. Garth Nix
• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self. Baruch Spinoza
• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler
• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. Charles Caleb Colton
• Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum
• To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. Benjamin Franklin
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In fact, pride in one’s ignorance can be the worst kind of pride

• The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. George Takei
• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

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Pride thrives on financial wealth

• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates
• The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. Mark Twain
• There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. French Proverb
• Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. Austin O’Malley
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Pride thrives on power

• None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power. Proverb
• Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. Baron Wessenberg
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In order to transcend pride, you need first to have some

• It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. Georges Bernanos

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Watch yourself for any signs of excessive pride

• We need to watch that such healthy recognition does not slide into vanity, excessive pride and an inflated sense of importance, which reflect back to us a distorted image of ourselves and do nothing to promote flourishing. Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini
• Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears. Henry Cloud
• Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. Wallace D. Wattles

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Transcend excessive pride by realising how much you still have to know and learn

• Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. Garth Nix
• It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. Thomas a Kempis
• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper
• Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. Leonard Rubenstein
• Such is true wisdom and humility; for the more a man really knows, the less conceited he will be. Samuel Smiles
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Transcend excessive pride by practicing humility …

• Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe. David F. Wells
• Humility is the acceptance of the possibility that someone else can teach you something else you do not know already, especially about yourself. Conversely, pride and arrogance close the door to the mind.  Arthur Deikman
• Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way. Stephen Covey
• Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. St. Vincent de Paul
• True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. Martin Luther
• Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton
• Humility is pride in God. Austin O’Malley
• Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. Vanna Bonta
• Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. Bible
• God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble James 4:6 Bible
• There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. Robert Louis Stevenson
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… by finding an equilibrium between pride and self-devaluation

• Humility is a healthy balance between pride and self-devaluation. J. Maurus
• Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels. Rabino Nilton Bonder

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However, be wary of false modesty and humility for they are simply pride in disguise

• What is modesty but inverted pride? Chinua Achebe
• Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard
• Too humble is half proud. Yiddish Proverb
• One may be humble out of pride. Michel de Montaigne
• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. Thomas Fuller
• They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. Robert Burton
• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• When you’re thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but we may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. Ken Follett
• The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. Mignon McLaughlin
• Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. La Rochefoucauld
• If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show. St. François de Sales
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Transcend excessive pride by remembering you’ll be dead soon

• Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs

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Transcend excessive pride by remembering that all things eventually pass

• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! Abraham Lincoln
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Transcend excessive pride through meditation

• Meditate and listen to the Name of the Lord and give it to everyone. In this way, the filth of lifetimes of karma shall be removed, and egotistical pride shall vanish from your mind. Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Pain and suffering can also help to reduce excessive pride

• The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. Dean Koontz
• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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In a spiritual sense, the ego flourishes on pride

• The ego gets a grim pleasure and satisfaction from suffering and all the non-integrous levels of pride, anger, desire, guilt, shame, and grief. The secret pleasure of suffering is addictive… To stop the mechanism, the pleasure of the payoff has to be identified and willingly surrendered to God. Out of shame, the ego blocks out conscious awareness of its machinations, especially the secretiveness of the game ‘victim’. David R. Hawkins
• The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of “truth.”  It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.  F. Hodge
• You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest – pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear – is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God. Brian L. Weiss

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Ironically, spiritual efforts to reduce the ego can actually strengthen pride, thus sabotaging further spiritual growth

• Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. Idries Shah
• Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. Prem Prakash
• The sense of being somebody special (a legend in our own mind!) helps immunize “I” against the bare facticity of its own mortality, here-and-now instability, and innate insubstantialness. Even when “I” dreams of transcending itself – as in those programs that have (or advertise) as their central agenda the eradication of ego –   it is still an “I” who has now achieved the incomparable goal of self- transcendence! “Look, Ma, no ego!” we announce as we unicycle past our rapt inner audience, too proud to notice our pride, forgetting that self- conceit persists well into advanced transpersonal stages of development.   In our craving to be somebody special – and don’t forget that we may find our specialness through being “nobody” – we bypass exploration of that very craving, committing far more of our passion to fulfilling our dreams than to actually awakening from them.   Robert Augustus Masters
• Spirituality is the favourite outfit of the ego. Geraldine Evans
• Spiritual awakening is about waking up from your ego. It is not about awakening the ego. Sampo Kaasila
• The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. Jean- Yves Leloup
• There are people who have renounced all possessions who have a bigger ego than some millionaires. Eckhart Tolle
• Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last. George Swinnock

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Some argue that healthy pride is a necessary step on the path to enlightenment

• It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. Georges Bernanos
• You have to be somebody before you can be nobody.   Jack Engler
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Curiosity, some argue, can be a form of pride

• Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Blaise Pascal
• There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what others don’t know. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. Michel de Montaigne
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Shyness and timidity, some argue, can be a form of pride

• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. Joseph Priestley
• Timidity is mistrust of self and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage.
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When dealing with people, always be aware of the pride of others and use it to your advantage

• Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument. Thomas Fuller
• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. Dale Carnegie
• If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Lord Chesterfield

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True generosity comes from the heart, not a place of pride

• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Horace Mann
• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Kahlil Gibran
• Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. Proverb
• That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. Seneca
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True love is never proud or boastful

• Love is patient and kind, Love is not jealous, conceited, proud or boastful, it is not arrogant, selfish, irritable or rude. Love does not keep a record of wrongs. Love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth, Love never gives up, and its faith, hope and patience never fail. Love is eternal. 1- Corinthians 13:4
• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Nicholas Sparks
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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. William Cowper
• Always try to be modest and be proud of it!
• As soon as they get married they all get these big old guts on them; that’s not from drinking beer – that’s from swallowing pride. Louis Katz
• Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive. Gerard Way
• Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
• Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twain
• I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. Oscar Wilde
• I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson
• If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself. Bauvard
• No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride.
• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is sea-sickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. Josh Billings
• Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone. Egyptian Proverb
• Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. Fred A. Allen
• Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s non-fattening!
• Swallowing your pride occasionally will never cause indigestion.
• The Bible and several other self-help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine
• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand. Fred A. Allen
• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant
• When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. Bernard Bailey

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