Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. ― Kahlil Gibran

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Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it. ― Idowu Koyenikan

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. ― John Ruskin

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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. ― C.S. Lewis

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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. ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. ― Criss Jami

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There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it. ― Criss Jami

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ― Sophocles, Antigone

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Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. ― Shannon L. Alder

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I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? ― Margaret Cho

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