National Pride Quotes:

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July, July 4th 1776, Inspirational Patriotic

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

- Richard Rorty

source: Richard Rorty (1998). “Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty”, Prickly Pear (UK)

topic: Country, Pride, Self, National Pride

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

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.108

topic: Spring, Pride, President, National Pride

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

- Ian Hislop

topic: Pride, Proud, Modesty, National Pride

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.170, Psychology Press

topic: Country, Pride, Enmity, Hungarians, Balkans

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

- Joseph Howe

source: 1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

topic: Wise, Country, Pride, National Pride

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

- Mike Fitzpatrick

topic: Pride, Flags, American Flag, Flag Day, National Pride

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

- Benito Mussolini

source: "Talks with Mussolini". Book by Emil Ludwig, 1932.

topic: Believe, Pride, Reality, National Pride

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Pride, Mind, Technique, Culmination, Mind Control

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

- Billy Bragg

topic: Pride, Neighbor, Fountain, National Pride

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

- John Lydon

topic: Hate, War, Pride, National Pride

We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.

- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

source: "Futurist Speech to the English". Lecture at the Lyceum Club of London in 1910. "Marinetti: Selected Writings", 1972.

topic: Pride, Race, Land, National Pride

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

- Zubin Mehta

topic: Pride, Israel, Classical Music, Emblems, National Pride

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Pride, Our World, Air, Clean Water, Clean Air

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

- Frank Zappa

source: Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

topic: Music, Art, Believe, National Pride

We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.

- Ratan Tata

topic: National Pride

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

- Theodore Bikel

topic: Country, Art, Pride, Austria, National Pride

It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.

- Peter Padfield

source: Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books

topic: Pride, Government, Flames, Provinces, Great Britain

The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.

- James Fallows

topic: Ruffles, Saving Up, National Pride

My opponent misses something important. When we say America is exceptional, it doesn`t mean that people from other places don`t feel deep national pride, just like we do. It means that we recognize America`s unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Mean, Pride, Unique, National Pride

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

- Jane Swisshelm

topic: Pride, Men, Doors, National Pride

Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned, the information can be woefully inadequate, they are sometimes seen to be opaque and their advertising is clearly recognised as not being of a global standard. For local brands, quality, innovation and transparency are critical hills to climb.

- Miles Young

topic: Business, Pride, Worry, National Pride

Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into Mount Rushmore, minted into coins, and emblazoned in a place of honor in every school child's history text as a constant reminder of this great man's contributions to world freedom, national pride, and individual prosperity. With the truth, the term 'Reaganomics' will be used only as a term of endearment and respect.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Children, School, Pride, Mount Rushmore, Endearment

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

- Steve Blake

topic: Pride, Identity, Benefits, National Identity, Globalisation

It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.

- Julius Evola

topic: Military, Mistake, Believe, National Pride

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

topic: Prayer, Pride, Feelings, Good Breeding, National Pride

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

- Amy Irving

topic: Country, Attitude, Self Esteem, Developed Country, National Pride

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

- Abhishek Bachchan

topic: Sports, Football, Believe, Sportsman, National Pride

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

- James Salter

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Character, Pride, Thinking, Easy Going, National Pride

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

- Alan Shepard

source: "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

topic: Pride, Apollo, Mars, National Pride