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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.
— Henry Cloud
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
— Grover Cleveland
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
— Michael Ignatieff
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
— Pierre Corneille
Never be ashamed of your patriotism.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
— Thomas a Kempis
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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.
— Malcolm X
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.
— John Adams
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.
— William Barclay
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.
— William Faulkner
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.
— William Faulkner