pride

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.

The proud hate pride - in others.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.