What is Pride?

          Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation, pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments
     
Examples 
          1.Being proud in a way that excludes others from being proud too- building yourself up while looking down on them
          2. A proud person becomes irritated when corrected for mistakes. 

          3. A proud person accepts praise for things over which he or she has no control. 

          4.Pride will not admit mistakes. 

          5. Pride refuses to take counsel and to learn from other people.

          6.Pride often shows itself in competition with other people.

          7.Pride does not want more; pride wants more than somebody else.
           But sometimes pride is not bad at all for example: Presenting something you're proud of will help convince others in its value. This has important applications in emergencies, with civil rights and in moral and legal debates. Pride is also tied up with self esteem the psychology to reflect person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth.