Pride Definition Essay

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What is pride? Is it the quality or state of being proud? According to Dictionary.com it could also be a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get when you experience something special. There can be many different meanings of pride. Pride can be the allegiance towards a certain group or club, the pride one gives towards its own country, or even the pride that someone has internally within themselves could be another way to look at the definition of pride. Pride can be interpreted in more ways than one; it just depends on the way the word is being used. The pride that I have towards a group at church or an extracurricular club at school can have many different interpretations to other people besides what I think pride is in my own …show more content…

The pride of one’s country should be important to everyone no matter where they live. Showing pride towards one’s country is one way to define pride, but you can also define pride as the pride someone has internally within themselves. Another way you could define pride would be the pride that someone has internally within themselves. The way someone looks at pride within themselves can vary to which everyone agrees about. You could have pride towards the physical aspect of your body. Maybe your physique is in tip top shape, so that is something you take pride in in order to keep your body the way it is. The pride you have within yourself could also have some mental characteristics to go along as well. The mental aspects of pride could be how someone wants everyone else to look at them. For instance, when walking through the halls at school there are many people that are judge mental towards others based on the looks of one and other. They don’t actually take the chance and effort to really go meet this person and chat with them to really see what type of person they really are and how much pride they have for others. People jump to conclusions to quickly and often don’t see what pride other may have. In conclusion, there are many different ways that you can define the pride. Pride can be the allegiance towards a certain group or club, the pride one gives towards its own country, or even the pride that someone has internally within themselves could

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