Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Young

Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Daniel Defoe

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke
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Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
Paul Morand

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Anthony Trollope