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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Alison McGhee
    “You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
    ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea
    tags: expectations, powerful, silence
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    Guy Finley
    “The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”
    ― Guy Finley
    tags: attachment, expectations
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    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    “You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.”
    ― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
    tags: expectations, observation, observations, perception
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  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement
    1806 likes

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  • #6
    John Ruskin
    “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
    tags: love, pride
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    C.G. Jung
    “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: conscience, pride, psychology, self, superego
    516 likes

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  • #8
    Sophocles
    “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
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
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  • #9
    Tana French
    “My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”
    ― Tana French, Faithful Place
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    William Shakespeare
    “He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: pride, troilus-and-cressida
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    M.F. Moonzajer
    “A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.”
    ― M.F. Moonzajer
    tags: bear, children, parent
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  • #12
    Yukito Kishiro
    “The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.”
    ― Yukito Kishiro
    tags: man, pride, worth
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  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: conquest, pity, pride
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    Criss Jami
    “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, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
    642 likes

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    T.F. Hodge
    “The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: appetite, challenge, conquer, decision, ego, greed, lust, pride, quotes, spiritual, truth, turmoil
    55 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: authority, conceit, condemnation, dictator, dictatorship, dominion, ego, false, false-belief, false-prophet, false-teacher, force, leaders, morality, pride, spiritual
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    Criss Jami
    “What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: caring, compassion, energy, hard-work, helping-others, other-people, sacrifices, strength, stress, work
    121 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: advancement, art, betterment, change, creativity, growth, improvement, skill, time
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  • #19
    Lionel Suggs
    “I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.”
    ― Lionel Suggs
    tags: adventure, confidence, passion, pride
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  • #20
    Winston Churchill
    “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: honor, perserverence, pride
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  • #21
    Heather Bixler
    “Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.”
    ― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride
    tags: christian, christian-living, god, inspirational-quotes, jesus, pride, walls
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  • #22
    Sophocles
    “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
    ― Sophocles
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  • #23
    Sophocles
    “Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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    Sophocles
    “Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
    ― Sophocles
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  • #25
    Sophocles
    “Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came”
    ― sophocles
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  • #26
    Sophocles
    “In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. ”
    ― Sophocles, Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
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  • #27
    Sophocles
    “A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
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  • #28
    Anthony Liccione
    “Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: companion, enemy, love, pride
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  • #29
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 1
    tags: parenting, pride
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  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45296 likes



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