It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

Chatterton, Thomas

22.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Saunders, Frederick

23.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Stuart Stevens

24.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

James, William

25.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

26.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

27.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Baily, Bernard

28.

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.

Jung, Carl

29.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Lewis, C. S.

30.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1]

Bible

32.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

33.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Gilbert, W. S.

36.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

37.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Keating, Paul

38.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Bernanos, Georges

39.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Allen, Fred A.

40.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Moliere

42.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

43.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Eliot, George

44.

Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Bible

45.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pope, Alexander

46.

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

Jackson, Jesse

47.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Keats, John

49.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.