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.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I believe that, young or old, we have as much to look forward to with confidence and hope as we have to look back on with pride.

Gratitude, respect and pride, these words sum up how I feel about the people of this country and the Commonwealth.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

With patient and firm determination we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope, until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion