If you don't need any of the stuff painted in the QPushButton except the text and your data (images/pixmaps), I suggest you can go a little deeper an directly inherits of QAbstractButton instead.
You should paint text manually in your overriden paintEvent method. But mush easier - as OrcunC suggested, use Stylesheet instead.
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