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One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
Jasmine Guy

One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Alain Rene Le Sage


Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
John Zimmerman

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

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