People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

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

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
John Zimmerman

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Adrienne Rich

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

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

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.
Alexander Pope

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
Jeff Foxworthy

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe

Pride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas Fuller