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1. “When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.”

Neil Gaiman

Childhood, Books, Organization, Pride, Reading

2. “I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!”

Douglas Adams

Coincidence, Pride, Identity, Humor, Genetics

3. “Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.”

John Grisham

Poverty, Pride, Social Commentary, Class, Identity

4. “I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.”

Michel de Montaigne

Fortune, Victory, Pride, Human Nature, Perspective

5. “My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”

Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Flexibility, Pride, Human Nature, Metaphor

6. “We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.”

Michel de Montaigne

Judgment, Human Nature, Pride, Perception, Self-awareness

7. “Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.”

Michel de Montaigne

Pride, Thought, Speech, Human Nature, Psychology

8. “One may be humble out of pride.”

Michel de Montaigne

Humility, Pride, Paradox, Human Nature, Psychology

9. “Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride, Critique, Self-worth, Social Dynamics, Human Psychology

10. “The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

National Pride, Identity, Self-worth, Societal Values, Pride

11. “How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride, Existence, Suffering, Mortality, Human Condition

12. “Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful With your white robe of simpleness. Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul. Build God’s throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty And know that what is huge is not great and pride is not everlasting.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Humility, Pride, Simplicity, Soul Freedom, Power Dynamics

13. “I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Pride, Identity, Facade, Self-awareness, Irony

14. “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

Jack Kerouac

Love, Pride, World Appreciation, Difficulty, Emotional Choice

15. “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”

Thomas Jefferson

Pride, Humility, Human Nature, Wisdom, Personal Reflection

16. “Wear it like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.”

Langston Hughes

Pride, Identity, Expression, Cultural Significance, Empowerment

17. “Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!”

Langston Hughes

Identity, Pride, Beauty, Racial Affirmation, Self-acceptance

18. “I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.”

Langston Hughes

Identity, Race, Pride, Heritage, Poetic Imagery

19. “Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.”

John Milton

Pride, Ambition, Fall, Rebellion, Hubris

20. “To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”

John Milton

Ambition, Hell, Heaven, Pride, Power

21. “Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.”

John Milton

Pride, Fall, Divine Punishment, Hell, Ambition

22. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

John Milton

Pride, Rebellion, Power, Hell, Heaven

23. “I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.”

John Milton

Vice, Virtue, Argument, Pride, Moral Struggle

24. “Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.”

John Milton

Virtue, Vice, Morality, Pride, Silence

25. “Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

John Milton

Ambition, Power, Hell, Heaven, Pride

26. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Revenge, Injury, Pride, Philosophical Insight, Moral Complexity, Narrative Tension

27. “Shame is pride's cloak.”

William Blake

Shame, Pride, Deception, Philosophical Insight, Moral Observation, Poetic Brevity

28. “Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”

William Blake

Pride, Excellence, Commitment, Philosophical Insight, Motivational Statement, Personal Growth

29. “The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”

William Blake

Wisdom, Learning, Nature, Philosophical Insight, Animal Symbolism, Pride

30. “The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful – because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.”

Aldous Huxley

Forgiveness, Pride, Self-abandonment, Reproach, Ego, Psychological Insight

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