pride quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Receive without pride, let go without attachment."
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"Let us be careful in dealing with those who attach great importance to being credited with moral tact and subtlety in moral discernment! They never forgive us if they have once made a mistake BEFORE us- they inevitably become our instinctive calumniators and detractors, even when they still remain our 'friends.'"
147
"There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous."
154
"We can be proud of our abilities, but we must own up to our shortcomings, our ignorances and our mistakes."
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"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."
325
"There appears to be a conscience in mankind which severely punishes the man who does not somehow and at some time, at whatever cost to his pride, cease to defend and assert himself, and instead confess himself fallible and human."
353
"Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses."
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"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."
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