Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Alan Cohen

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.

Stephen King

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Dickens

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