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

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
George Chapman

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Alain Rene Le Sage

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
Neil Diamond

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Jewish Proverbs

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
Charles Caleb Colton

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte

Shame is pride's cloak.
William Blake

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

Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison.
Bob Dylan

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin Luther

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
George Eliot

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Andrew Young