John Steinbeck Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• “Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Lying, Pride

  "East of Eden".

• Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Pride, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.257, Penguin

• I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Lions

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

• So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

  John Steinbeck

  Coffee, Pride, Two

  Letter on August 20, 1947. "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters", 1976.

• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

• In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

  John Steinbeck

  Heart, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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