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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

— Alexander Pope

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

— Ezra Taft Benson

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

— John C. Maxwell

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

— Ralph Marston

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

— Paul Henderson

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

— George Herbert

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

— Henry Rollins

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

— Ezra Taft Benson