“Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.” [Attributed to August B. Black, bio unavailable.]

"The devil is content that people should excel in good works, provided he can but make them proud of them." [William Law (1686 – 1761) was a Church of England priest.]

"Pride is the perverse desire of height." [Saint Augustine 354 – 28 ) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.]

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” [Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) was an American inventor and computer marketing genius who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.]

“There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” [John C. Maxwell (1947) is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership.]

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” [Saint Augustine 354 – 28 ) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.]

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” [Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968) was an American Catholic writer and mystic.]

“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 (1775 – 1817) was an famed English novelist.]

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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 (1813 – 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery.]

“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.” [C.S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) was an English novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist best known for his works MERE CHRISTIANITY and CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.]

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.” [Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor.]

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” [Sophocles (c. 497 – 406 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright.]

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” [John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) was a leading English art critic and social commentator of the Victorian era.]

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” [Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955.]

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.” [Dale Carnegie 888 – 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement and salesmanship.]

“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 (1898 – 1963) was an English novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist best known for his works MERE CHRISTIANITY and CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.]

“No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride.” [Unkown]

“The proud person always wants to