It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

Shatter your pride in dust to vanish into the joy of longing and love.

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

Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them.

Do not turn thy cheek in scorn, nor walk insolently on the earth; Allah does not love an arrogant boaster.

There is a paradox in pride-it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The proverb runs: How great that man would be were he not so arrogant.

Why was man created on the sixth day? To teach that if he is ever swrollen with pride, it can be said to him: A flea came ahead of thee in creation.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

You are either alive and proud, or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.