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Agnes Martin Artist
Pride

"It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution"

Pride Ego Frustration
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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
Pride

"And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred."

Pride Gratitude Hatred
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Pride

"I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery."

Spiritual Pride Humility
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Harry Hay Activist
Pride

"Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!"

Long Gay Pride
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Laozi Philosopher
Pride

"Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed."

Pride Blessing Helping Others
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Pride

"In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty."

Order Pride Opposites
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Pride

"Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown."

Book Pride Paris
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Stendhal Novelist
Pride

"A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride."

Character Pride Sacrifice
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
Pride

"It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge."

Art Spring Pride
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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
Pride

"When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."

Character Pride Vanity
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Pride

"Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments."

Pride Humble Intellectual
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Pride

"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."

Pride Helping Others Attachment
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Kemmons Wilson Businessman
Pride

"The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score."

People Successful Pride
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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
Pride

"Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!"

Men Pride British
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Pride

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."

Men Pride Competition
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Barack Obama Politician
Pride

"As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it."

Men Struggle Pride
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