Quotes about Pride

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Never be ashamed of your patriotism.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

Here is the death of human pride. Beside the glory of Christ, all human titles are of no importance and all human claims become ridiculous.

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.