Pride

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"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."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Through your rags I see your vanity."

"Damned indecision and cursed pride."

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold."

"Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride."

"Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride."

"People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."