Positive Emotions: Pride Quotes

Discover thoughtful quotes about pride as a positive emotion, highlighting self-respect, earned accomplishment, and the quiet confidence that follows meaningful effort. These reflections invite you to celebrate progress without arrogance and to honor personal values. Use them for motivation, mindful leadership, or daily affirmation. Balanced pride supports resilience, encourages excellence, and helps set healthy boundaries while remaining compassionate. Let these voices remind you that genuine pride grows from integrity, learning, and contribution - an energizing spark that keeps you moving forward with purpose.

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"My pride fell with my fortunes"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us: Something is out of tune"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American"

Jon Secada, Musician

Jon Secada

"I am proud of my work for my country"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

Abdul Qadeer Khan

"The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility"

Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier

"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"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"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"France cannot be France without greatness"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it"

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

Chris Hadfield

"Everywhere we go, people recognize me"

Marion Jones, Athlete

Marion Jones

"I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"I have a lot of vanity"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

Jack Nicholson

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman"

Lena Horne, Actress

"I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor"

Barbara Stanwyck, Actress

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels, men rebel"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"Let America first praise mediocrity even in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"I don't think of myself as either American or Australian, really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

Daniel Radcliffe

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America, and then work"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one"

Sean Connery, Actor

Sean Connery

"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness"

Ossie Davis, Actor

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

Victoria Beckham

"That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day"

Kristi Noem, Politician

"I'm tired, but proud"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I'm just a true Irish boy at heart"

Colin Farrell, Actor

"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest"

Billy Martin, Athlete

"If you are a housewife, take pride in that"

Anthea Turner, Entertainer

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