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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. (Quote by - Petrarch)

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. (Quote by - James Madison)

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband. (Quote by - Julie Benz)

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. (Quote by - John Chrysostom)

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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. (Quote by - William Penn)

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an 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. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. (Quote by - Joe Paterno)

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride (Quote by - Jonathan Aitken)

I always took a great deal of pride in being original. (Quote by - Roger Miller)

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them. (Quote by - Steve Kanaly)

Shame is pride's cloak. (Quote by - William Blake)

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. (Quote by - Isoroku Yamamoto)

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