#pride

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#causes #collapse #conditional #conditional love #cornerstones

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#ailment #designer #many #pride #so-called

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.' ↗

— Ted Strickland

#back #building #going #made #men

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#boasting #duration #family #makes #merit

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#moscow #never #power #pride #russians

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish's speech reflected on her, as if she could take credit for some part of it, for him. ↗

— Michael Stein

#pride #reminiscing #age

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me. ↗

— Ron Pearce

#pride #anger

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave? ↗

— Roman Payne

#carpenter #courage #esteem #genius #happiness