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“Every person will battle with false pride, a sense of loss and aloneness, and feeling defenseless in a world of endless trauma and tragedy.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.”

Regret Pride Regrets Hubris Regret Quotes False Pride

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Those who are born to crawl often think they fly high.”

Crawling Flying Quotes Fly Quotes Crawl False Pride Fly High Self Important Self Conceit Self Conceited

Author:Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.”

Self Values Self Esteem Pride Achievement Esteem Flags Celebration Betray Pins Curriculum Toddler False Pride

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."”

People Country Wise Failing Generations Dangerous Cry Pride Prove Ambition Dignity Institutions Selfish Our Country Secure Welfare Schemes Mock Deceptive True Patriotism False Pride

Author:Carl Schurz

“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”

Stills Pride Buried Hospitality Foreigners Poorest Hull House False Pride

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.”

Way Shows Blood Economic Pride Gains Advantage Gold Greed Patriotism Territory Shedding Blood False Pride

Book:The Hounds of Spring

Source: The Hounds of Spring

“I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.”

Language Social Pride Advantage Sake Refuse My Sister Unnecessary Strain English Language Englishmen Questionable Learning English False Pride

Book:A Gandhi Reader

Source: A Gandhi Reader

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”

“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”

Humility Pride Insulting False Humility False Pride

Book:Rise of the Evening Star

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.”

Life Is Lord Pride Seeds False Pride

Author:Kabir

“Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.”

Giving Action Next Speak Water Forever Progress Pride Terrible Importance Holes Remove Traps Next Time Tempted Fists Boast Conceit Halt False Pride

Author:Og Mandino

“Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.”

Years War Common Blood Pride Thousand Shapes Disease Gold Rings Lust Spite New Year Thousand Years Foul Civics Slander False Pride

Author:Alfred the Great