The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.
From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.