“A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S.“Too many people spend money they earned.to buy things they don't want.to impress people that they don't like.” ― Will Rogers.“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne.“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.” ― Jorge Luis Borges.“I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice A person may be proud without being vain.