"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "
— Kahlil Gibrán

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
— Jane Austen

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."
— Jane Austen

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
— Dumas (Le Comte De Monte Christo)

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
— Jane Austen

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."
— Michel de Montaigne

"The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's."
— Ezra Taft Benson

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)

"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion)

""...until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Martin Luther King Jr. "
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live."
— Louie Giglio

"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Everyone's lost but me!"
— Indiana Jones

"Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself."
— Tori Amos

"Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
— Jane Austen

"I will only add, God bless you.
-Fitzwilliam Darcy"
— Jane Austen

"'No man is my master,' she said. He was shocked into silence. 'No man's gold will fill my bag,' she said, and jangled her bag at him. It was totally empty (158)."
— Jane Yolen (Dragon's Blood)

"Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance."
— Paul David Tripp (Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change)

"He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle."
— William Shakespeare

"O flower of warriors, beware the trap.
Choose , dear beowulf ,the better part, eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride."
— Anonymous (Beowulf: A New Verse Translation)

"He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four."
— G.K. Chesterton (Heretics/Orthodoxy)

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
— Ann Landers

"Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don't you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one's ever heard of, and we shall treat you worse than the lowest lackey!' They strive for justice, they stand on their rights, and yet they've slandered him like infidels in their article. We demand, we don't ask, and you will get no gratitude from us, because you are acting for the satisfaction of your own conscience! Queer sort of reasoning!... He has not borrowed money from you, he doesn't owe you anything, so what are you reckoning on, if not his gratitude? So how can you repudiate it? Lunatics! They regard society as savage and inhuman, because it cries shame on the seduced girl; but if you think society inhuman, you must think that the girl suffers from the censure of society, and if she does, how is it you expose her to society in the newspapers and expect her not to suffer? Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophesy. Isn't that topsy-turvydom, isn't it infamy?"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)

"Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
"
— Christoper Marlowe (The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus)

"Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear."
— Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot)

"I would not kiss any man's dirty latchets for leave to bake in his oven."
— Walter Scott (Chronicles of the Canongate; Highland Widow; Two Drovers; Surgeon's Daughter; My Aunt Margaret's Mirror; Tapestried Chamber)

""Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening." "
— Frank Tyger

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."
— William Hutton

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

""Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.""
— Michael Ayrton (Maze Maker)

"...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people."
— Richard Wright (Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth)

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
— Mark Twain

"The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked."
— Thomas Moore

"All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself."
— Michael Crichton (The Lost World)

"Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage."
— Vladimir Odoevsky

"Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation."
— Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)