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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

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.

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

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

Pride is a fool's fortress

Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.

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

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.