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Pride Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Pride... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
- Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
- Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
- Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
- Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in…
- Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which…
- Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in…
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- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
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- With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. — Ezra Taft Benson