Excessive Pride Quotes

• I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

  Francesca Annis

  Pride, Suffering, Used

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• When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

  Ken Follett

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.127, Penguin

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

  Paul Haggis

  Pride, Thinking, Blindness

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• The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Pride, Giving

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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• The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

  William O'Neil

  Pride, Simple, Ideas

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• A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

  Larry Wall

  Pride, Lazy, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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