Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.