--- Richard G. Scott
"Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown."
--- American Proverb
"Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it."
--- Hartman Rector Jr
"Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? Conscience asks, Is it right?"
--- William Punshon
"Humor is the hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt."
--- Author Unknown
"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments."
--- Benjamin Franklin
"If it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing right."
--- L. Reece Brady
"It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us."
--- L. Fran�ois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"
--- Abraham Lincoln
"Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic."
--- Helen Rowland
"Play to the Heavenly grandstands, not for worldly applause."
--- William Wordsworth
"Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy."
--- Benjamin Franklin
"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."
--- Henry St. John Bolingbroke
"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 has gone, pride has gone."
--- C. S. Lewis
"Pride goeth before destruction."
--- Bible, Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
--- Proverbs xvi. 18, Old Testament (The Holy Bible)
"Pride is a damning sin in the true sense of that word. It limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won�t change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong."
--- Ezra Taft Benson
"Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Most of us consider pride to be a sin of those on the top, such as the rich and the learned, looking down at the rest of us. There is, however, a far more common ailment among us�and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous."
--- Ezra Taft Benson
"Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."
--- John Ruskin
"Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God�s � the proud wish God would agree with them. They aren�t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God�s."
--- Ezra Taft Benson
"Pride is the universal sin, the great vice."--- Ezra Taft Benson
"Pride, the never failing vice of fools."
--- Alexander Pope
"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."
--- Frank Tyger
"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds."
--- Sir Walter Raleigh
"The antidote for pride is humility."
--- Ezra Taft Benson
"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."
--- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"There was ease in Casey�s manner as he stept into his place, There was pride in Casey�s bearing and a smile on Casey�s face�.."
--- Ernest Lawrence Thayler
"Twice the pride, double the fall."
--- Count Dooku, Star Wars: Episode III � Revenge of the Sith (2005)
"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
"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
--- George Sands
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