* "It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."
* "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."- C.S. Lewis
* "Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there."
* "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."- John Ruskin
* "No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride."
* "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." -Kahlil Gibran
* "Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."- Thomas Merton
* "Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself."- Samuel Johnson