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50 Pride Month Quotes To Celebrate Love This LGBTQ+ Pride Month And Beyond

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

With Pride Month coming up in June (yay!), there’s no better time to learn about LGBTQ+ history, amplify LGBTQ+ voices, and honor yourself and loved ones. While there so many ways to educate yourself about queer history—like streaming documentaries and digging into some books —Pride Month quotes are a simple way to start.

Not only are these sayings relatable for many queer folks and those exploring their sexuality , but they may also help explain concepts related to the community and the fight for LBGTQ+ rights that some may otherwise find hard to grasp. Sometimes, all it takes is a funny joke or a powerful quote to get someone to turn their head and begin to reevaluate their biases.

Oh, and let’s not forget to mention that these quotes make for A-plus captions on Instagram, Facebook, and any other social media platform you may use to commemorate Pride this June and beyond. You’ll probably notice a bunch of your friends and family posting supportive quotes and maybe even using one as a means of coming out , so you’ll want to have a rolodex of potential sayings to mark the occasion—as well as recommend to others.

Ahead, find 50 of the most powerful, inspirational, and funny Pride Month quotes—from popular musicians, actors, and thought leaders—perfect for whether you’re looking to make a statement online or show compassion for yourself, as a queer individual , or others in the LGBTQ+ community.

Celebratory Pride Month Quotes

• “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” — RuPaul
• “I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” — Chaz Bono
• “We’re here, we’re queer—get used to it.” — Anonymous
• “So raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways.” — Pink
• “Proud to be me this month—and every other month.” — Anonymous
• “Come out, come out, wherever you are!” — Anonymous
• “Love him. Love him, and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” — James Baldwin

Short Pride Month Quotes

• “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge
• “Baby, I was born this way.” — Lady Gaga
• “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
• “There’s no better time than now to be who you are.” — B oy George
• “Our love is here to stay.” — Whitney Houston
• “…And I can’t change, even if I tried.” — Macklemore
• “Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.” — Lady Gaga
• “Girls like girls like boys do, nothing new.” — Hayley Kiyoko, “Girls Like Girls”
• “Trans rights are human rights.” — Anonymous
• “Showing my true colors.” — Anonymous

Pride Month Quotes for Allies

• “I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” — Dolly Parton
• “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe
• “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
• “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t ever apologize for your sexuality. Just be you.” — Sonya Deville
• “I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.” — Stan Lee
• “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.” — John Lennon
• “Gay rights are human rights.” — Hillary Clinton
• “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind, don’t matter and those who matter, don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
• “Kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls, if that’s something you’re into.” — Kacey Musgraves

Inspirational Pride Month Quotes

• “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.” — Rachel Maddow
• “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
• “There’s no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it.” — Tan France
• “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.” — Elliot Page
• “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.” — Michael Cunningham
• “Whoever tries to bring us down is already below us.” — Anonymous
• “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” — Zanele Muholi
• “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” — Tim Cook
• “People will stare. Make it worth their while.” — Harry Winston
• “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown
• “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” — Marsha P. Johnson

Funny Pride Month Quotes

• “I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels.” — Leslie Jordan
• “You are straight fire. Well, minus the ‘straight’ part.” — Joey Benevento
• “Make America gay again.” — Anonymous
• “Froot Loop in a world full of Cheerios and proud of it.” — Anonymous
• “I didn’t choose to be gay, I just got lucky.” — Anonymous
• “My hair is the only straight thing about me.” — Anonymous
• “‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay.” — Taylor Swift
• “Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not.” — Anonymous
• “If Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that no one should live in a closet.” — Anonymous
• “I hate the word ‘homophobia.’ It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an asshole.” — Morgan Freeman
• “If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work: ‘Hello. Can’t work today, still queer.’” — Robin Tyler
• “Hi gay. Happy Pride Month.” — Megan Stalter

Casey Clark is a freelance journalist who specializes in beauty, health, and style-related commerce content. She graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in journalism. Her work has been published in Women's Health , Forbes , Better Homes & Gardens , and more.

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60+ inspiring lgbtq quotes for pride month.

Pride Month is a celebration of history—our moment to honor the resistance and persistence that gave rise to pivotal change. It’s also an acknowledgment of the present and an opportunity to uplift and encourage LGBTQ loved ones in your community. Most of all, Pride Month is an occasion to look and dream ahead—to envision the world we want to shape, one where LGBTQ people thrive in every way.  

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One way to kick off Pride Month is by sharing a good word. So we asked writers from Hallmark’s LGBTQ community to curate a unique collection of meaningful quotes. From statements on intersectionality to words that go beyond the binary, these pieces are rooted in support and celebration of LGBTQ identity, helping you say what’s on your heart.   

We hope these messages reflect your authentic bonds and help you connect with your loved ones. If any of these quotes ring true to you, share them this month and beyond!

LGBTQ Quotes That Support and Uplift  

You are exactly who you should be.

There’s nothing more beautiful and powerful than someone who chooses to be themself.

You are straight fire. Well, minus the “straight” part.

— Joey Benevento

The bravest thing you can be is yourself.

Today, I hope you know that you’re more than just seen…

…you are loved.

— Meghan Craig

More inspiring LGBTQ quotes that support and uplift:

You’re so flaming, even the sun be like “DAMN.”

— Radius Burik

In all the universe, there’s only one you.

— Anna Wenner

You never have to “fit in” to know that you belong.

— Mercedes Lucero

You are like a rainbow of awesome!

— Valerie Stark

I love all that you are and all that you’re becoming.

— Hallmark Editorial Staff

Let your flag fly. It’s a wonderful thing  seeing you be you.

— Mariya Zilberman

People who don’t get you aren’t worthy of your fabulousness.

Here’s to all the years of being who you are. Flawlessly and unapologetically!

— Courtney Taylor

Make your own story. It’s bound to be a good one.

— Andrew Blackburn

Just a reminder that you’re exactly where you should be.

— Melissa Woo

Take up space. Today and every day.

Who wants to FIT IN when you can FINESSE. Stay true to you, my friend.

Every part of you matters. The world is better when you are your authentic self— bold, beautiful, radiant—on full display.  I see every shade of you, and I couldn’t love you more.

— Teju Abiola

LGBTQ Quotes About Pride and Celebration  

Transcendent, transformative, transtastic, transtastical, transchanted, transmendous… That’s you to a T. Love you!

— Sara Quenzer

Be you Do you Celebrate you

PRIDE is a year-round look

Be the you you’ve always been, proudly.

You are so parade-worthy!

Being LGBTQ…is just being.

— Matt Gowen

More LGBTQ quotes about pride and celebration:

Live like you.

Here, queer, full of pride.

Checked my mood ring. Yep, still gay. (It’s my best mood. You understand.)

Queer AF. Just as it should be.

— Jordy Byrd

Sounds gay. I’m in.

Staying flawless like it’s NBD.

Let’s get one thing straight… Just kidding. Let’s be gay!  

Love getting hyped about all the ways you’re you.

Here’s to growing a little bit every single day but doing it in your own damn way.

LGBTQ Quotes That Go Beyond the Binary  

The future is nonbinary. You’re just ahead of the curve.

Beyond binary. Beautiful truth. Biggest love.

— Clare Gowney

More LGBTQ quotes that go beyond the binary:

Genderful and wonderful.

I love you beyond the binary.

Cinnamon rolls, not gender roles. Your amazingness needs no explanation.

Why break hearts when you can break binaries?

You’re wayyyyy too sweet for labels, honey. And I love to see it!  

Them: Pick a Side. Us: Por Que No Los Dos? Love the person you are so much, friend.

LGBTQ Quotes About Love  

Love stories are more epic with two heroines.

Stand for love.

Love you. Love celebrating every step toward the you that you were meant to be.

Love always.

More LGBTQ quotes about love:

Our love makes every day a celebration.

Different lives, different stories… Same hope, same love.

— Stacey Donovan

Love is infinite.

— Dan Taylor

We love our way and live our way… and for me, it’s the BEST way.  

— Amy Trowbridge-Yates

LGBTQ Quotes on Intersectionality  

We’re Black, Queer, and Beautiful!

— Jake Gahr

Black, queer, and a woman? Yaas, chile, that’s a beautifully complex blessing right there.

Black LGBTQ Pride is a celebration of life and love.

More LGBTQ quotes on intersectionality:

Keep rising in your Black queer pride, owning it and bringing enough shine to light up the entire world.

LGBTQ Quotes That Honor History and Look to the Future  

Because of the Queens who came before us our crowns shine brilliantly today.

We are owning our future… believe that.

Gentle reminder: Let what no longer serves you just shed tf away. Because you’re vibrant as hell.

More LGBTQ quotes that honor history and look to the future:

This is for the ones who never gave up. The ones who carried dreams of love bigger than anyone thought possible and who made it possible. The ones who showed up so we could show out, today and every day.

The future is filled with all things queer. Because that’s the kind of joy we’re manifesting.

Transformation can feel like a lot to handle, but through every part of the process, remember that you’re so loved, so believed-in, and so rooted-for.  

LGBTQ Quotes About Community and Chosen Family  

Together, we’ll change the world. Together, we’re unstoppable.

— Cat Hollyer

When the world doesn’t show up  the way we need it to,  we show up for each other. Always.

More LGBTQ quotes about community and chosen family:

Alike in some ways, different in others, but still family… deeply, sweetly family.

— Cheryl Hawkinson

We’re each other’s people.

— Melvina Young

Nothing warms my heart like community. So glad we have each other.

• Courtney Taylor contributed to the writing of this article.

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15 Inspiring Quotes from LGBTQ+ Leaders

“Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.”

June 28 marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots , when members of the LGBTQ+ community fought back when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, in 1969. Each June, Pride Month is celebrated to commemorate the watershed moment that kicked off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. These memorable quotes from LGBTQ+ leaders—on everything from intersectionality to being an ally—will ring true all year round. (Content warning: Some of these quotes feature language that is considered outdated.)

Tammy Baldwin // U.S. Senator

Essex hemphill // poet, performer, and activist, charles m. blow // journalist, commentator, and columnist for the new york times, leslie feinberg // transgender activist and author, jason collins // nba star, harvey milk // murdered san francisco city supervisor and first openly gay man elected to public office, zachary quinto // actor and producer, audre lorde // poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, alice walker // novelist, essayist, and activist, marsha p. johnson // transgender activist and stonewall riots participant, cherrie moraga // poet, essayist, and chicana activist, james baldwin // poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist, kristin beck // transgender former u.s. navy seal, bob paris // author, activist, bodybuilder, and former mr. universe, george takei // actor, director, and activist.

“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.”

—From her “ Never Doubt ” speech at the Millennium March for Equality, 2000

“We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home. It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can’t become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered-down versions of Black life in America. I need the ass-splitting truth to be told, so I will have something pure to emulate, a reason to remain loyal.”

—From Ceremonies : Prose and Poetry, 1992

“Part of what my discomfort was, in the beginning, is that I wanted something that didn’t exist. I wanted something that was so singular, a label that was so singular for me. I was so special—I was so different from everybody else I was meeting. And I wanted a different label. And I had to say, “Charles, snap out of that. What are you talking about?’ All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term bisexual is not only serviceable but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that’s the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.”

—From an interview with Michelangelo Signorile about coming out as bisexual in his memoir Fire Shut Up In My Bones, 2014

“Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgender people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other’s differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.”

—From Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, 1992

—From the essay “ The Gay Athlete ,” published in Sports Illustrated, 2013

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”

—From a tape recording to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts’s The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, 1977

“In light of Jamey’s death, it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.”

—From a blog post in response to the death by suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, a bisexual teen and YouTuber, 2011

“Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves—along with the renewed courage to try them out.”

—From Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984

“Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”

—From In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, 1983

“I’d like to see the gay revolution get started, but there hasn't been any demonstration or anything recently. You know how the straight people are. When they don't see any action they think, ‘Well, gays are all forgotten now, they’re worn out, they're tired.’ ... If a transvestite doesn’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite, then nobody else is going to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I'm a transvestite for them.”

—From an interview in Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, 1972

“Our strategy is how we cope—how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex, or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.”

—From This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color, 1981

“If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

—From an interview with Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch, 1969

“I don’t want you to love me. I don’t want you to like me. But I don’t want you to beat me up and kill me. You don’t have to like me, I don’t care. But please don’t kill me.”

—From a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, 2013

“Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.”

—From his memoir Straight from the Heart , 1995

“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”

—From Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Internet Strikes Back, 2013

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A version of this story ran in 2017. It has been updated for 2024.

55 Inspiring Pride Quotes From the LGBTQ+ Community to Celebrate Pride Month

These inspirational quotes from LGBTQ+ activists, artists, and politicians are a powerful way to learn about the history of Pride.

Pride month is in June, and there are tons of ways to celebrate and show your support for the LGBTQ+ community. You can learn about the history of Pride month, attend local events put on by LGBTQ+ organizations in your area, volunteer for these organizations, and donate to LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations. You can also make it a point to support businesses that donate to LGBTQ+ organizations and educate yourself about the meanings of different Pride flags . Another way to show support is to reflect on quotes from the LGBTQ+ community . We've rounded up 55 of the best Pride quotes for you to read and share on social media.

These quotes from activists, artists, politicians, entertainers, and more emphasize what it means to be an LGBTQ+ person. Some have spoken about the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people past and present, calling for allies to get involved. Others detail the freedom and joy they experience from openly expressing their gender identity and/or sexuality. And many use their platform to remind people that what happens to the LGBTQ+ community is of importance to everyone, no matter your identity.

These quotes make for great Pride captions for Instagram and are sure to spark interesting, necessary conversations. Here are 55 quotes from the LGBTQ+ community for you to reflect on and share.

Harvey Fierstein

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

Sylvia Rivera

“I'll be the first one to step on any organization, any politician's toes if I have to, to get the rights for my community.”

Edie Windsor

"Marriage is a magic word. And it has magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly."

Emmie America

“More people need to find the inspiration, the courage, to just speak up because when the riot gets too loud, no matter how hard whoever tries, it's not possible to calm it. When the fire's too big, you can't have enough water to put it down.”

Yasmin Benoit

“Me being in the position I’m in now is a sign of inclusion and progress. I’m glad that I can provide that representation for Black asexual people in particular because we’re so often forgotten about.”

Elliot Page

“People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.”

Rina Sawayama

“As women, and especially as queer people, we need to say no to things and be heard and stick our head above the water. It’s an issue, and I’m constantly trying to work with different people.”

George M. Johnson

“I've been fighting for LGBTQ rights for as long as I can remember because, in turn, I'm fighting for myself and fighting for people like me.”

Frank Mugisha

“It is important for the international community to listen to the local voices, and take direction from the local voices on how they can support, and how they can engage, and how they can provide solidarity to the LGBT community that needs this support urgently.”

Gilbert Baker

"You can live in this light of the truth. It’s totally liberating. You don’t have to live a lie."

Bayard Rustin

"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers."

Kodo Nishimura

“I want to inspire other religious leaders of the world to re-examine their conceptions and teachings against LGBTQ people so that all of us can feel safe to be ourselves and shine in our own color. If I can contribute to that, what people think of me does not matter at all.”

Billy Porter

“I'm in a place where I want everything in my life to mean something. For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.”

Ellen DeGeneres

"We're not supposed to conform. We're not supposed to be like somebody else. We're not supposed to act like somebody else. And as long as you stay true to exactly who you are, you will be rewarded in ways that you can't imagine."

“I feel we’re at this pivotal moment in the queer movement in terms of holding onto our rights, which are being chipped away at. …We can’t become complacent, and we need to make many alliances. People need to come together as one. There is power in numbers.”

Marsha P. Johnson

“You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.”

"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."

James Baldwin

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life — you won’t live any life at all."

Brittney Griner

“I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.”

George Takei

"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity."

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51 Best LGBTQ+ Pride Quotes To Celebrate

This month is LGBTQ+ Pride Month , a time to celebrate the progress that has been made by and for the LGBTQ community, while also recognizing that there is still much work to be done .

As we reflect on the progress that has been made, it is important to remember the voices of those who have fought for equality before us.

In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, here are some of the best quotes from famous LGBTQ advocates and allies:

Don't forget to check out our articles about how to thoughtfully celebrate Pride Month , the top LGBTQ+ influencers doing good , and all of our LGBTQ+ good news stories .

Inspirational LGBTQ+ Quotes for Pride Month and Beyond

Popular lgbtq+ pride quotes.

“We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.” — Elliot Page

“We are powerful because we have survived.” — Audre Lorde

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” — Audre Lorde

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.” — James Baldwin

“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” — Laverne Cox

On Coming Out

“Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.” — Jason Collins

“I can't give someone a playbook on how to come out, but I can help create a safe space for others to be heard and feel loved—just like the one my mom provided for me. I know who I am. I've lived in this body for the last 27 years, and I'm very confident in the power that I hold.” — ​​Mauree Turner

“I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” — Dolly Parton

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown

Supportive LGBTQ+ Quotes

“Being born gay, Black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, Black female is.” — Lena Waithe

“Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” — James Baldwin

“I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.” — Brittney Griner

​​“The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body.” — Sam Smith

“I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.” — Kesha

“I'm very fluid, and I think love is love. You can find it in any gender.” — Demi Lovato

“I’m nonbinary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely. I feel all of my energy. I feel like God is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she.’ If I am from God, I am everything. I am everything, but I will always, always stand with women. I will always stand with Black women. But I just see everything beyond the binary.” — Janelle Monáe

“So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” — Tim Cook

“To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.” — Lena Waithe

“Maybe we can stop trying so hard to understand the gorgeous mystery of sexuality. Instead, we can just listen to ourselves and each other with curiosity and love, and without fear. We can just let people be who they are and we can believe that the freer each person is, the better we all are.” — Glennon Doyle

“There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” ‍ — Chris Colfer

“I think it's important for parents to educate themselves, too, and be open, and realizing that your children are their own person and if they may or may not act the way you want them to in terms of gender expression that that's OK.” — Laverne Cox

“No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

On Rights & Taking Action

“Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.” — Bob Paris

“The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined.” — Megan Rapinoe

“We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.” — Sylvia Rivera , on LGBTQ+ activism

“People in this country who are in positions of privilege must learn to find ways of fighting for the just treatment of others, not by centering and platforming themselves, but by holding up the ones who are suffering.” — Brandi Carlile

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From Marsha P. Johnson

“We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.” — Marsha P. Johnson

“History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.” — Marsha P. Johnson

“You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson

‍“Darling, I want my gay rights now!” ‍— Marsha P. Johnson

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From Harvey Milk

“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.” — Harvey Milk

“Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.” — Harvey Milk

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” — Harvey Milk

“Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.” — Harvey Milk

“Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.” — Harvey Milk

“If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning.” — Harvey Milk

“I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I’m affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there’d be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.” — Harvey Milk

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From Coretta Scott King

“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance, and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.” — Coretta Scott King

“I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.” — Coretta Scott King

“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said , ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’” — Coretta Scott King

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From Politicians

“All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more — and no less — heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.” — Tammy Baldwin

“For a lot of my life, I was judged for my gender representation or my sexual orientation, or what people assumed of me; and every single time my goal has been to combat that and show my greatness.” — Taylor Small

“I once worried that there was no place for trans people like me to participate in any way in our politics. Since coming out, though, I've seen that change is possible and I've learned that the only things that are truly impossible are the things we don't try. You can run, you can win and you can serve.” — Sarah McBride

“When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” — Barack Obama

“When we look back at the Stonewall uprising and activism that grew out of that moment, even the most basic progress seemed like it would take a revolution to achieve. So we had one. And that’s how we’ve made such enormous progress over the last 50 years. Today, we should remain inspired by the courage of the story of Stonewall.” — Tammy Baldwin

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More Short Pride Quotes

“Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings

“I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love.” — Dolly Parton

“This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?” — Lady Gaga, to the LGBTQ+ community

“There’s no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it.” — Tan France

“The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.” — Gilbert Baker

“Pride is important because tonight someone still believes they're better off dead than being themselves.” — Sterling Graves

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Best 100+ Inspiring Pride Month Quotes

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03 June 2024

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During Pride season, people celebrate with rainbow flags and friends but it's more than just a celebration. Pride is also a time to remember that this community has faced discrimination and fought back. Even though we have come a long way, there is still a lot of work to do to make sure everyone is treated equally, and sometimes we have to fight just to keep the rights we have.

From iconic figures to everyday heroes, these pride month quotes represent the spirit of pride and reminds us of the importance of acceptance and inclusion.

15 Pride Month Quotes That Support and Uplift

Let’s celebrate Pride Month with these 15 quotes that support and uplift the LGBTQ+ community. These lgbtq quotes are a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience, and beauty of being true to oneself.

• Love is not about gender; it's about souls. - Unknown
• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
• There is no force more powerful than a person determined to rise. - Unknown
• In diversity, there is beauty and strength. - Maya Angelou
• Pride is about celebrating who you are and embracing your uniqueness. - Unknown
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• Embrace the glorious mess that you are. - Elizabeth Gilbert
• You are valid, you are loved, and you are not alone. - Unknown
• The only way to be truly happy is to live authentically and embrace who you are. - Ellen DeGeneres
• Be a voice, not an echo. - Unknown
• You are enough just as you are. - Meghan Markle
• Pride is not the opposite of shame but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame. - Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• In a world where you can be anything, be kind. - Unknown
• In this life, you have to be your own hero. - Jeanette Winterson
• Love knows no limits or boundaries. It's simply love. - Unknown

15 LGBTQ Quotes About Pride and Celebration

Whether you are looking for words of encouragement, affirmation, or inspiration, these pride quotes lgbtq will resonate and empower you throughout the month and beyond.

• Pride means celebrating who you are, loving who you love, and being unapologetically yourself. - Unknown
• It takes no compromise to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. - Harvey Milk
• The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves. - Gilbert Baker
• I am a strong, Black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better. - Brittney Griner
• We are powerful because we have survived. - Audre Lorde
• The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. - Rita Mae Brown
• There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. - Chris Colfer
• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
• Pride means celebrating love, diversity, and the freedom to be yourself, regardless of who you are or who you love. - Unknown
• Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor.
• Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges. - Bob Paris
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business. - Maurice Sendak
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein
• Love is too beautiful to be hidden in the closet. - Unknown
• Pride means celebrating the beauty in our differences and recognizing that love knows no boundaries. - Unknown

15 Pride Month Quotes That Go Beyond the Binary

Let’s explore these 15 Pride quotes that go beyond the binary and celebrate the diversity and richness of all gender identities.

• Gender is not something that we are, but something that we do, something that we perform, something that we construct and that is constructed for us in interaction with others. - Judith Butler
• There is no one way to be non-binary, and that’s the beautiful thing about it. - Jeffrey Marsh
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Harvey Milk
• I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. - Janet Mock
• Non-binary pride is about embracing the freedom to be whoever you are, beyond society's limitations and expectations. - Unknown
• I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. - Audre Lorde
• Being non-binary means existing beyond the confines of traditional gender identities, embracing the fluidity of who we are. - Unknown
• Gender is a universe, not a line. - Jacob Tobia
• Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. - Leslie Feinberg
• The beauty of standing up for your rights is that others see you standing and stand up as well. - Cassandra Duffy
• Non-binary pride is about celebrating the complexity and diversity of gender, and affirming the right to exist authentically. - Unknown
• Non-binary individuals challenge the notion that gender is strictly binary, opening up possibilities for self-expression and identity. - Unknown
• Gender is not a possession you can lose. It's a starting point you can't escape. - Juno Dawson
• Gender is a universe of possibilities, not a binary choice. - Unknown

15 Quotes for Pride Month About Love

Here are the 15 pride month quotes about love that highlight the experiences and voices of those who exist outside the traditional male-female spectrum, offering inspiration, validation, and support.

• Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou
• Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn
• Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Maya Angelou
• Love is the bridge between you and everything. - Rumi
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
• Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day. - Unknown
• Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. - Loretta Young
• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. - Rabindranath Tagore
• Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. - Paulo Coelho
• Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Pablo Picasso

15 Pride Slogans on Intersectionality

Let’s discover 15 powerful Pride slogans that highlight intersectionality, celebrating the interconnected nature of our identities.

• Queer and here, celebrating all colors of the rainbow!
• LGBTQ+ and proud, rising together, intersectionality boosts!
• Strength in diversity, pride for everyone!
• Trans rights = human rights, intersectionality matters!
• Love is love, embrace every kind, no exceptions!
• From stonewall to now, our unity grows strong!
• Proud to be, embrace every shade of queer!
• Intersectional pride, breaking barriers, building bonds!
• All identities, all pride, together we stand!
• Strength in diversity, pride across all identities!
• Every voice, every story, intersectional pride at work!
• Beyond labels, celebrating our diverse identities!
• Inclusive pride, honoring every identity, every battle!
• Together we thrive, intersectional pride for a brighter future!
• Intersectionality: our strength, pride, and equality for everyone!

15 Pride Inspirational Quotes That Honor History and Look to the Future

Let’s embrace the range of identity and expression with these pride month quotes during Pride Month and beyond.

• It takes no compromise to give people their rights. - Harvey Milk
• We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. - Elliot Page
• The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body. - Sam Smith
• Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned. - Sylvia Rivera
• We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity. - George Takei
• Hope will never be silent. - Harvey Milk
• When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free. - Barack Obama
• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. - Bayard Rustin
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barack Obama
• The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• No one is free until we are all free. - Emma Lazarus
• It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist. - Laverne Cox
• The only way to deal with fear is to face it. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• We will not go back to hiding in the shadows. Our lives are not up for debate. - Raquel Willis

15 Pride Month Quotes About Community and Chosen Family

You can celebrate Pride Month with these 15 heartfelt pride sayings about community and chosen family. These pride month quotes honor the love, support, and connection found within the LGBTQ+ community.

• Community is about acceptance, love, and support. It's where we find our chosen family. - Unknown
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.
• If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? - RuPaul
• We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to. - Brené Brown
• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Moulin Rouge
• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. - Hubert H. Humphrey
• We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. - Robert Fulghum
• Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what. - Unknown
• Being part of a community means having people who support you no matter what, celebrate with you, and lift you up when you need it most. - Unknown
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. - Steve Jobs
• You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise. - Maya Angelou
• Our differences are what makes us beautiful, and our community is where we find strength in those differences. - Unknown
• Community is not just about being together, it's about lifting each other up, celebrating each other's victories, and supporting each other through tough times. - Unknown
• The strength of the community is in its diversity, and the beauty of the chosen family is in its unconditional love. - Unknown

75 Pride Month Quotes To Remind Us That Love is Love

Posted on Last updated: June 18, 2024

Categories LGBT+ LIFESTYLE , QUOTES

Looking for some inspiring pride month quotes to get you in the mood for the upcoming celebrations and marches? In this guide, I list 75 of my all-time favourite quotes for pride month to remind us that love is love.

There is more to Pride than rainbows, wild parties and fabulous pride outfits . Pride Month is a time to honour and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, our history, and our ongoing fight for equality.

It is a time to uplift voices, spread love, and stand in solidarity with individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Pride helps remind us of how far we’ve come as a community, but it also serves as a token of how much work is left to do.

To commemorate this special occasion and prepare for pride events across the UK and beyond, we have compiled a collection of 75 inspiring LGBTQ quotes. So let’s get to it.

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75 Inspiring Pride Month Quotes

Celebrate pride with these pride month quotes.

These quotes for Pride serve as a reminder of the resilience, strength, and beauty of the LGBTQ+ community. They inspire us to challenge societal norms, stand up for what is right, and create a world where everyone can love and be loved without fear or discrimination.

1. “It takes no compromise to give people their rights…it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” — Harvey Milk

2.  “When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone” — Coretta Scott King

3.  “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson

4.  “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” — Ellen DeGeneres

5.  “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” — Tennessee Williams

6.   “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings

7.   “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

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8. “ All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more—and no less—heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying, as civil rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to ‘fix what ain’t right’ in our society.” — Sen. Tammy Baldwin

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9.  “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge

10.  “There are worse things in life than kissing boys.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz

11.  “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin

12.  “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizen of this country.” — Zachary Quinto

13.  “I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.” — Portia de Rossi

14.  “Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.” — Bob Paris

15.  “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde

16. “When you put love out in the world, it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox

17.  “The Lord is my Shepherd, and He knows I’m gay.” — Troy Perry

18 .  “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” — Audre Lorde

19.   “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You’re not scared. You’re an a**hole.” — Morgan Freeman

20.   “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected all over the world.” — Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

21.   “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” — James Baldwin

22.   “Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.” — Amandla Stenberg

23.   “But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint.” — Truman Capote

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24. “I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. I want to march for tolerance, acceptance and understanding. I want to take a stand and say, “Me, too.”” — Jason Collins

25.  “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.” — Elliot Page

26.  “I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.” — Anderson Cooper

27.  “I am a strong, Black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.” — Brittney Griner

28.   “This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?” — Lady Gaga

29.   “When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” — Barack Obama

30.   “I’ve been embraced by a new community. That’s what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.” — Chaz Bono

31. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” — Jason Collins

32.  “What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” — Miley Cyrus

33.  “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.” — Rachel Maddow

34.  “Stonewall represented, absolutely, the first time that the LGBT community successfully fought back and forged an organized movement and community.” — Mark Segal

35.  “Being born gay, Black and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, Black female is.” — Lena Waithe

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36.  “Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.” — Jeanette Winterson

37.  “The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.” — Anthony Venn Brown

38. “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” — George Takei

39.  “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe

40.  “Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.” — Alaric Hutchinson

41.  “I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity.” — Selisse Berry

42.  “Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.” — Sir Ian McKellen

43.  “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” — Larry Kramer

44.  “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” — Chris Colfer

45. ” From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.” — Howard Dean

46.  “We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.” — Sylvia Rivera

47.  “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

48.  “I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself—to my friends, to my family, to myself—trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.” — Halsey

49.  “You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” — Gertrude Stein

50.  “The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.” — Gore Vidal

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51. “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” — Tim Cook

52.  “This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.” – Elliot Page

53. “I’ll be the first one to step on any organization, any politician’s toes if I have to, to get the rights for my community.” –  Sylvia Rivera

54.  “I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.” – Michael Cunningham

55.   “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

56.   “We are powerful because we have survived.” – Audre Lorde

57.  “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi

58. “Gay rights are human rights.” – Hillary Clinton

59.  “The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined.” – Megan Rapinoe

60.  “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” – Laverne Cox

61.  “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

62.  “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown

63.  “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.” – Lena Waithe

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64.  “People will stare. Make it worth their while.” – Harry Winston

65.  “I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” – Dolly Parton

66. “It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.” – River Phoenix

67.  “Baby, I was born this way.” – Lady Gaga

68.  “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek

69.  “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

70.  “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – What a Girl Wants

71. “I realize that just living my truth of what I am, there’s one less person to fight me in my own head.” – Raven-Symoné

72.  “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not” – Andre Gide

73.  “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

74. “Being gay is like being left-handed. Some people are, most people aren’t and nobody really knows why. It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the way things are!” – Unknown .

75.  “After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am inside and out.” – Sam Smith.

Pride Month serves as a reminder to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, to honour our struggles and triumphs, and to continue the fight for a world that embraces diversity and inclusivity.

These pride month quotes remind us that love knows no boundaries, limitations, or restrictions. Which one was your favourite?

During Pride Month and beyond, let us uplift LGBTQ+ voices, amplify their stories, and work together to create a more inclusive and equitable society.

Happy Pride! 

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60 inspirational Pride Month quotes from LGBTQ+ luminaries

Prepare your rainbow flags — it's time to celebrate Pride .

Pride Month , which takes place each June , commemorates the history and activism of the LGBTQ+ community.

Whether you identify as LGBTQ+ or consider yourself an ally, there are a plethora of ways to get involved during Pride Month. You can read books by LGBTQ+ authors , attend a local Pride parade , volunteer with LGBTQ+ nonprofits, and blast your Pride playlist while doing all of the above.

Pride Month honors the bravery of LGBTQ+ luminaries of the past and present who fought for a more open, accepting, and courageous world.

If you haven't had the chance to brush up on your LGBTQ+ history, Pride Month is the perfect time to start.

Read up on important advocates like Harvey Milk, an openly gay California politician, and transgender rights activist Sylvia Rivera, who paved the way for future generations to continue campaigning against hate and homophobia.

Despite opposition, LGBTQ+ trailblazers continue to fight for justice. This month and every month, take some time to elevate, listen to, and learn from the words of the LGBTQ+ community.

From activists like Milk and Rivera to famous figures like Elton John and Miley Cyrus, here are 60 inspiring Pride Month quotes from LGBTQ+ celebrities, writers, thought leaders, and allies.

Pride Month Quotes

• “To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” — Bayard Rustin
• “It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.” — Solange Nicole
• “I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.” — Elliot Page
• “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” — Zanele Muholi
• “With ignorance comes fear, from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.” — Kathleen Patel, “The Bullying Epidemic”

• “We’re not supposed to conform, we’re not supposed to be like somebody else, we’re not supposed to act like somebody else — and as long as you stay true to exactly who you are, you will be rewarded in ways that you can’t imagine.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “The world has caught up with me and I’m a living witness that dreams do come true, even if they aren’t the ones you start out with.” — Billy Porter
• “How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?” —Marsha P. Johnson
• “We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.” — Sylvia Rivera
• “If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning.” — Harvey Milk

• “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings
• “We are powerful because we have survived.” — Audre Lorde
• “Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.” — James Baldwin
• “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
• “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin

• “If you’re part of a group that’s called "other" — a group that does not get the chance to be center stage — build your own stage, and make them see you. Your queerness is beautiful, your Blackness is beautiful, your compassion, your understanding, your fight for people who may be different from you is beautiful.” — Beyoncé
• “When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
• “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown
• “I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” — Dolly Parton
• “This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.” — Elliot Page

• “It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.” — River Phoenix
• “I think being gay is a blessing, and it’s something I am thankful for every single day.” — Anderson Cooper
• “This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?” — Lady Gaga
• “Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.” — Sir Ian McKellen
• “A big part of my pride and my identity is being a queer person. What I preach is: People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever. What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” — Miley Cyrus

• “Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.” — Sylvia Rivera
• “Being born gay, Black and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, Black female is.” — Lena Waithe
• “The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body.” — Sam Smith
• “There’s no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it.” — Tan France
• “Gender and sexuality are so fluid. It’s OK to change your mind a million times and figure out what works for you. It’s OK to take your time.” — Amandla Stenberg

• “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” — Jason Collins
• “Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected.” — Christine Jorgensen
• “I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!” — Sylvia Rivera
• “You don't have to be gay to be a supporter, you just have to be human.” — Daniel Radcliffe
• “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” — Laverne Cox

• “It’s time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “After a long internal journey, you now embrace being gay, recognizing it as a wonderful and integrally important component part of the totality that is you.” — Neil Patrick Harris
• “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence and community.” — Janet Mock
• “I want to make sure that any young person or anyone really who is looking up to me—who sees a glimpse of I am as a person—that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am.” — Samira Wiley
• “But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable. America has always believed this. And so, I am not ashamed to stand here today where presidents have stood and say that I love him, the same as Jack loved Jackie, the same as Lyndon loved Lady Bird. Every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it, whom the American people will hold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. America: He is my choice.” — Casey McQuiston, “Red, White & Royal Blue”

• “We must remember that our greatest strength is in our love of life and colors, beauty and music, dancing and joy. That is our secret weapon. That is something that the opposition does not have. Keep those things near and dear to your heart because in times of war that will sustain you.” — RuPaul Charles
• “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” — George Takei
• “I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's the icing on the cake.” — Jonathan Van Ness
• “Follow your gut and don’t feel like you owe any sort of explanation to anyone. Your sexuality is yours only so build with it at a pace that works for you.” — Daya
• “The whole issue of sexuality is so gray. I’m just trying to acknowledge that fluidity, that grayness, which has always existed. But maybe only now are we allowed to start talking about it.” — Kristen Stewart

• “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now OK to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” — Senator Tammy Baldwin
• “As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.” — Lance Loud
• “You are the ultimate power and you have never been so visible in the world! And that beautiful light and that rainbow is shining all around you. Stand in it. Bask in it. Allow yourself to glow in it as we grow. Take that spotlight, it belongs to you.” — Lady Gaga
• “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.” — Elliot Page
• “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

• “It’s wonderful to be gay. I love being gay. I really do. And I think I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had if I hadn’t been gay. And I’m very proud of that. I’m very proud that I can appreciate that.” — Elton John
• “It’s always wrong to hate, but it’s never wrong to love.” — Lady Gaga
• “It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.” — Laverne Cox
• “This month I think of as a celebration, as time for us to just be happy and to live. But I always think about the work afterwards and how long it’s going to take, and I think that’s not only up to the LGBTQAI youth and LGBTQAI+ individuals, but it’s up to our allies, too.” — Michaela Jaé Rodriguez
• “Hope will never be silent.” — Harvey Milk

• “You don’t have to change the whole world yourself — and frankly, no one is able to do that. But you can do something, and you should feel the weight of responsibility to do something.” — Megan Rapinoe
• “Just by the nature of making the choice to be true to who I am, I’m political.” — Billy Porter
• “LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it’s like to be there.” — Ronan Farrow
• “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t ever apologize for your sexuality. Just be you.” — Sonya Deville
• “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.” — Lena Waithe

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On August 28, 1971, roughly 100 queer Canadians from Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto came together at Parliament Hill to present a petition to Canada’s government, demanding 10 specific demands for their equal rights and protections. Simultaneously, roughly twenty gay activists demonstrated at Robson Square on the other end of the country, Vancouver.

These events were Canada’s First Gay Liberation protest and march.

Since 1971, we've seen tremendous progress for LGTBQ2S+ folks. However, the community still fights for equality.  Let these promising quotes inspire you to make that change and embrace your pride.

Motivational Pride quotes

1. "Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." - Jason Collins

2. "When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free." - Barack Obama

3. "It's been a journey and a process of becoming totally out and sort of living that truth and having it be a daily thing. I'm at the point now that I want people to know that, and I want to talk about it. We're coming so far as a society, but we still have so far to go. So until we're all the way there, I'll probably die talking about it." - Alex Sanchez

4. "The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." - Rita Mae Brown

5. “I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity.” — Selisse Berry

6. "This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another." - Elliot Page

7. "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Author Ernest J. Gaines

8. "I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You're not scared. You're an asshole." - Morgan Freeman

9. “If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised a green light to move forward.” — Harvey Milk

10. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” — Barbara Gittings

11. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

12. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker

13. “That one word ‘married’ is crucial because it defines our relationship. The way we see ourselves and the way we wish others to see us.” - Claire Balding

14. “Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.” – Gloria Steinem

15. "To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true." — Bayard Rustin

Inspirational quotes about Pride

16. "I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay." - Portia DeRossi

17. "I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day." - Anderson Cooper

18. "It's been a journey and a process of becoming totally out and sort of living that truth and having it be a daily thing. I'm at the point now that I want people to know that, and I want to talk about it. We're coming so far as a society, but we still have so far to go. So until we're all the way there, I'll probably die talking about it." - Megan Rapinoe

19. "The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well." - Cassandra Duffy

20. “We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God’s family.” – Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner

21. "I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you." - Chaz Bono

22. "Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it." - James Baldwin

23. “LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it’s like to be there.” – Ronan Farrow

24. "We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity." - George Takei

25. "I want to do the right thing and not hide anymore. I want to march for tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. I want to take a stand and say, 'Me, too." -Jason Collins

26. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” Chris Colfer

27. “We are powerful because we have survived.” - Audre Lorde

28. “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” - Laverne Cox

Quotes about being proud of your love  

29. “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge

30. “There are worse things in life than kissing boys.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz

31. “So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.” - Tim Cook

32. “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t ever apologize for your sexuality. Just be you.” – Sonya Deville

33. “People will stare. Make it worth their while.” - Harry Winson

34. “I’ve never met a gay person who regretted coming out—including myself. Life, at last, begins to make sense when you are open and honest.”—Ian McKellen

35. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn

36. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde

38. "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." - Boethius

39. “Love should never mean having to live in fear.” - DaShanne Stokes

40. “In the unification of two minds, the orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”― Abhijit Naskar

41. “There’s no better time than now to be who you are.” – Boy George

42. “You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” - Gertrude Stein

43. “Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.” - Julie Anne Peters

44. “Don’t let anyone define you. You define yourself.” – Billie Jean King

45. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” - Brene Brown

46. “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.” - Lena Waithe

47. "The only choice I made was to be myself." — Doris Shutt

48. “If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can’t we just all live?” – Margaret Cho

Powerful Pride quotes that made history

49. “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” – James Baldwin

50. “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi

51. “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

52. “Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal.” – Arsham Parsi

53. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” – Barbara Gittings

54. “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” – Bayard Rustin

55. “I appeal to all governments and societies to promote the values of tolerance and respect for diversity and to build a world where no one has to be afraid because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres

56. “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” – Tammy Baldwin

57. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” – Jason Collins

58. “The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.” – Anthony Venn Brown

59. “We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation.” – Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General

60. “If anyone is brave and true to themselves, it’s my gay fans. The amount of confidence and fearlessness it takes to do what maybe is not what your parents expect you to do or what society may think is different—to be brave and be different and to be yourself—is just so beautiful.” —Beyoncé

Pride quotes from famous films

61. “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” - The Imitation Game (2014)

62. "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." - Mulan (1998)

63. “My doctor said we can’t choose where we come from but we can choose where we go from there.” - Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

64. “This is the essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.” - Philadelphia (1993)

65. “He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dream making and strange remembrance.” - Call me by your name (2017)

66. “It's not lying to yourself if you believe it.” - Some Like it Hot (1959)

67. “At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you're gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.” - Moonlight (2016)

68. "The very things that held you down are gonna carry you up and up and up!" - Dumbo (1941)

Humorous Quotes about Pride

69. “Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.” – Dorothy Parker

70. “It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else’s sexuality. It’s like telling someone else how to clean their house.” – River Phoenix

71. “Being gay is like being left-handed. Some people are, most people aren’t and nobody really knows why. It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the way things are!” - Unknown

72. “Darling, I want my gay rights now.” – Marsha P. Johnson

73. "If male homosexuals are called 'gay,' then female homosexuals should be called 'ecstatic.'" — Shelly Roberts

74. "I am the rainbow sheep of my family." — Drew A. Head

75. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” – Brenda Howard

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Looking for quotes to celebrate this Pride month? Here, you’ll find the best LGBTQ quotes for inspiration and advocacy.

Pride Month is a time to celebrate love, acceptance, and the strides made by the LGBTQ+ community toward equality. It’s a time for reflection, joy, and solidarity. Here are 50 inspiring quotes to honor the resilience, strength, and beauty of the LGBTQ+ community.

1. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” — Jason Collins

2. “Love is never wrong.” — Melissa Etheridge

3. “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” — George Takei

4. “The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.” — Cassandra Duffy

5. “Being gay is not just what I do, it’s who I am. It is a part of me. It is my history.” — Ben Platt

6. “The most important thing is to be true to yourself.” — RuPaul

7. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.” — Chris Colfer

9. “Every single American — gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender — every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society.” — President Barack Obama

10. “You are beautiful no matter what they say.” — Christina Aguilera

11. “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.” — Tennessee Williams

12. “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter; you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe

13. “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.” — Laverne Cox

14. “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” — Rita Mae Brown

15. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” — Audre Lorde

16. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

17. “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” — Larry Kramer

18. “There’s no better time to be who you are than now.” — Janet Mock

19. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Everyone deserves to be celebrated and appreciated for who they are.” — Unknown

21. “If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward.” — Harvey Milk

22. “We are all part of the same human family and we should be treated equally and fairly.” — Ellen DeGeneres

23. “I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.” — Dolly Parton

24. “Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?” — James Baldwin

25. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss

26. “Love is a terrible thing to hate.” — Unknown

27. “You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.” — Black Lives Matter

28. “There’s no such thing as a perfect family. Every family is unique, special, and beautiful.” — Unknown

29. “Love always wins.” — Unknown

30. “Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.” — Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

31. “We are all born naked, and the rest is drag.” — RuPaul

32. “All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.” — Harvey Milk

33. “There’s a world of difference between being tolerated and being accepted.” — Daniel Radcliffe

34. “We must all make the choice to believe in our own beauty, and when we see it, to celebrate it.” — Cleo Wade

35. “You have to stand up for some things in this world.” — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

36. “The only way out of the closet is through the door.” — Unknown

37. “There’s no wrong way to be yourself.” — Unknown

38. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi

39. “Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.” — Sydney J. Harris

40. “If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others.” — Dalai Lama

41. “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.” — Mackenzi Lee

42. “You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

43. “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin

44. “The most important thing you can be is yourself.” — Dwayne Johnson

45. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou

46. “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.” — Marianne Williamson

47. “You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter; you just have to be a human.” — Daniel Radcliffe

48. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

49. “Love is a human experience, not a political statement.” — Anne Hathaway

50. “Hate is always foolish, and love is always wise.” — Doctor Who

Pride Month is a time to celebrate the progress made by the LGBTQ+ community and to reflect on the work still to be done. Celebrate who you are, support one another, and continue to push for a world where everyone can live freely and authentically.

Happy Pride! 🌈

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'Tis the season to be out and proud (if you so choose)! As you post online about your Pride adventures with friends and chosen family, you might be looking for just the right words to express your feelings about equality and being part of the LGBTQ+ community. These Pride month quotes are sure to get the conversation started.

From thoughtful reflections, to the work that still needs to be done, these empowering messages from queer icons, activists, organizers and LGBTQ+ celebrities will pump you up not only this June, and year round. These quotes are great for shouting out your Pride month excitement on Instagram with a fun party photo of you and your besties. Or, you can use them as text posts on Facebook or LinkedIn to inspire conversations amongst your colleagues or family about being allies and standing up for LGBTQ+ people in our current political climate. No matter how you’re celebrating, we’ve got a quote that will speak to and for you.

Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Barbara Gittings

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

Bayard Rustin

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Cherrie Moraga

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Dorothy Allison

There are two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Elliot Page

We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

George Takei

Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end.

Gilbert Baker

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

Harvey Milk

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans and strips trans women of their humanity.

Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Jinkx Monsoon

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance, with the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage.

Laverne Cox

Beyond ‘truth’ and ‘trans,’ one of the big Ts for me would probably be ‘trying.’ As long as we're trying, I think that goes a long way.

It’s called Pride, not hide. Everybody, more than ever, is wearing their hearts on their sleeves and wearing their messages on their backs. I think we all know what’s up. We all can feel it right now. It’s time to represent and it’s time to persist and keep going. There’s progress to be made and we’re moving forward.

Marsha P Johnson

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive, but those moments are cumulative realities.

Maurice Sendak

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

Rachel Maddow

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

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1. “love him and let him love you. do you think anything else under heaven really matters” – james baldwin.

In his iconic novel Giovanni’s Room , gay author James Baldwin makes a powerful statement about love. He proclaims that sex and gender don’t matter; all that matters is that two people love each other. Nothing should stand in their way if they have love in their hearts. These words resonated with millions of people who felt like their emotions were invalid because of the gender of the object of their love. With this quote, Baldwin assured them that it didn’t matter because love is love.

2. “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.” – Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African activist and artist. She works primarily in photography and video. Despite her fame as an artist, Muholi identifies herself as an activist first. It is her intention to use her art to highlight the beauty and individuality of black LGBTQ women: a group that she believes has been terribly underrepresented in all forms of art. So, instead of waiting for someone else to validate LGBT women of color, she took it upon herself to bring the struggles, needs, and beauty of these women to light.

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3. “I am proud, that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.” – Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is known as one of the first gay men to publicly announce his sexual identity. Born in Germany in 1825, his coming out was a historic and brave moment. During his lifetime, Ulrichs wrote numerous essays discussing homosexuality and asserting that non-heterosexual orientations are natural and biological. Despite being arrested numerous times, Ulrichs stated in the above quotation that he was proud of the work that he did for the LGBTQ community.

4. “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Minister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered these words during a speech at a 2014 Pride festival. In this speech, she was thankful that her native country was making strides towards acceptance and equal rights for LGBTQ people. However, she emphasized that until these rights are status quo all over the world, we cannot consider ourselves truly free. This marked one of the first calls from a head of state to make LGBTQ rights the standard worldwide.

5. “Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal.” – Arsham Parsi

Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee living in Canada in exile, has made it his mission to help LGBTQ people living in Iran: a nation where acts of homosexuality are punishable by flogging or even death. In the above quotation, Parsi seeks the assistance of LGBTQ people living in Western nations, providing a powerful reminder that while things are slowly improving in the west, there are still queer people all over the world who live every day afraid for their very lives.

6. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.” – Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings is known for being an American activist fighting on behalf of the LGBTQ population. In her most well-known fight she took on a Goliath: the United States government. She picketed to stop them from barring LGBTQ applicants from employment. However, as she states in the above quote, her greatest wish was not for laws to pass, but for true acceptance and equality.

7. “Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected.” – Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen was one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, and the first to publicly speak about the process. While many decried her decision as unnatural, she made the bold assertion that nature was wrong in putting her into a man’s body, and that the reassignment surgery made things right. Her advocacy aimed to normalize transgenderism and allow those who identified as trans to understand and accept themselves for who they truly are.

8. “If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised a green light to move forward.” – Harvey Milk

When Harvey Milk became the first openly gay person elected to public office in California, he became the face of the push to put more LGBTQ people in positions of power. In this quotation, he stresses that doing so will not only monumental for those in the queer community who don’t feel represented; it will also empower anyone who feels disenfranchised by those who are supposed to represent them.

9. “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” In her writing, she frequently expressed her anger at the treatment of people of color, women, and LGBTQ folk. In the above quotation, she calls for others to express their anger. To many in the queer community, staying silent and in the closet felt like a safety blanket. However, Lorde encouraged them to step out into the light, telling them that the only true safety is in making yourself known and demanding the acceptance and respect that is your right.

10. “”We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” – Bayard Rustin

If you aren’t familiar with the name “Bayard Rustin,” you may recognize one of his closest associates: Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, fighting not only for the rights of African Americans, but for the LGBTQ community as well. Rustin urged the disenfranchised to engage in civil disobedience to get their points across to the majority, encouraging those who wanted to fight for their rights to be unafraid to speak up and act out to demand them.

11. “I’m not missing a minute of this. It’s the revolution!” – Sylvia Rivera

This is one of the most famous quotes to come out of the Stonewall Riots. Uttered by Latina LGBTQ activist Sylvia Rivera, this statement served as a rallying cry for many who were afraid of the violence that occurred at Stonewall. Rivera knew the dangers, but also knew that the risk was worth the potential reward. She knew that the queer community had been put down for long enough and was ready to fight for their rights and for their voice. Participating in the riots at only 17 years old, Rivera was an inspiration to many.

12. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” – Brenda Howard

Brenda Howard is known as the “Mother of Pride.” She was instrumental in organizing the first ever Pride marches: events that have become a vital part of the fight for acceptance. Howard was also one of the few activists to focus on rights for those who identified as bisexual or polyamorous: two groups that are often underrepresented in LGBTQ activism.

13. “If a transvestite doesn’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite, then nobody else is going to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite for them.” – Marsha P. Johnson

Another important figure in the Stonewall Riots, Marsha P. Johnson was also one of the first activists to fight for the rights and dignity of drag queens. She was vocal throughout her life about the unique struggles faced by those who dressed in drag and encouraged others not to become complacent and to continue fighting for rights and respect.

14. “When you are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … Someone has to do this.” – Alice Nkom

Alice Nkom made history when she became the first female Cameroonian lawyer. In her time practicing law, she has dedicated her career to helping those who have been the victims of her country’s harsh laws against homosexuality. The fight has been an uphill battle, as these types of laws are not uncommon in African countries. However, Nkom continues to fight, as she knows that her fight is just and right. With her work, she hopes to usher in a new era for the rights of the LGBTQ population in Cameroon.

15. “It is against this God who kills that we are fighting and resisting.” – Alexya Salvador

Organized religion has been one of the harshest critics of homosexuality, citing holy writings as evidence that it goes against God. Alexya Salvador, set to become the first transgender pastor in Brazil, doesn’t necessarily see religion as the enemy of LGBTQ rights. As she states in this quotation, it is a particular version of God, one that is vengeful and judgmental, that must be eradicated. She strives for a different view of God: one that is accepting and loving of everyone, regardless of their identities. She hopes to usher in a new era of love and understanding between religion and the LGBTQ community.

16. “The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I’m gay.” – Troy Perry

Troy Perry founded the Metropolitan Community Church: a Protestant denomination that specializes in welcoming the LGBTQ community. Perry was religious for much of his life, but was frustrated by feeling unwelcome as a gay man. With his ministry, he strives to give others a place of love, welcoming, and acceptance. He is also a vocal advocate encouraging other faith communities to open their doors to the queer community.

17. “AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.” – Larry Kramer

The AIDS epidemic, which reached its peak in the 80s and 90s, was a vital moment for the queer community. Gay men were the group most ravaged by the disease, and the most feared and hated group because of it. Larry Kramer was a vocal advocate for those suffering from AIDS, and continues to speak out to this day about the failure of our society to help and protect those who are suffering.

18. “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” – Tammy Baldwin

In 2013, Tammy Baldwin made history by becoming the first openly gay Senator in the United States. In her speech at the Millennium March for Equality, she spoke to LGBTQ folks, encouraging them to be out and proud. In this quotation, she states that the only way to normalize non-heterosexual orientations is for the queer community to act like they are normal, because they are.

19. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.” – Jason Collins

In 2014, Jason Collins made history by becoming the first male professional athlete to publicly identify himself as gay. After his announcement, a flood of other queer athletes began declaring their sexuality, revealing to the world that some of our greatest sports figures are in fact LGBTQ. This was a milestone for the fight for equality because, as Collins says, being open about sexual orientation is an important step towards ending prejudice.

20. “The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.” – Anthony Venn Brown

“Conversion therapy” has been a major issue for LGBTQ youth for decades, or perhaps even longer. It is often used in Christian communities to encourage queer youth to use religion to combat their homosexual desires. Anthony Venn Brown underwent such therapy in Australia and later publicly denounced such programs. He advocated for the abolition of such programs by describing the damage that they do to LGBTQ youth who are forced to undergo them, as well as the damage that lack of acceptance can have on the entire community.

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• Quotes about LBGTQ+ pride, being yourself, fighting for equity, and allyship

Quotes on LGBTQ+ Pride & Equity

1. “It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.”

– Laverne Cox

2. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, because we were born this way.”

– Lady Gaga

3. “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.”

– Tammy Baldwin

4. “Darling, I want my gay rights now.”

– Marsha P. Johnson

5. “Of course, attitudes change, but only because brave people like Ellen [DeGeneres] jump into the fire to make them change. And if I hadn’t seen her on TV, I would have thought, ‘I could never be on TV. They don’t let LGBT people on TV.’ And more than that, I would have gone on thinking that I was an alien and that I maybe didn’t even have a right to be here.”

– Kate McKinnon

Quotes on Courage & Overcoming Adversity

Strength in the Face of Challenges

6. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

– E.E. Cummings

7. “People used to think I was a monster. And for a long time, I believed them. But after a while, you learn to ignore the names that people call you and you just trust who you are.”

– Shrek

8. “To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act. And I think more and more people should try it, because it’s gotten me a pretty cool life.”

– Lena Waithe

9. “Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

– Harvey Fierstein

Quotes on Coming Out

Living Authentically

10. “The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you’ve just told them.”

– Rachel Maddow

11. “How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?”

– Harvey Milk

12. “Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.”

– Sir Ian McKellen

13. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”

– Brené Brown

Quotes About Love

14. “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and a woman, but between love and love.”

– Frank Ocean

15. “We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame, and without compromise.”

– Elliot Page

16. “Self-love means that I have a relationship with myself built on trust and loyalty. I trust myself to have my own back, so my allegiance is to the voice within.”

– Glennon Doyle

17. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotes on the Importance of Intersectionality

18. “The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can’t really pick it apart. It’s all intertwined.”

– Megan Rapinoe

19. “We cannot be antiracist if we are homophobic or transphobic… All Black lives include those of poor transgender Black women, perhaps the most violated and oppressed of all the Black intersectional groups.”

– Ibram X. Kendi

20. “It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.”

– bell hooks

Quotes on Gender Identity

Understanding and Accepting Gender Diversity

21. “Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.”

– Chaz Bono

22. “Being transgender is not just a medical transition. It’s discovering who you are, living your live authentically, loving yourself, and spreading that love towards other people and accepting one another, no matter the difference.”

– Jazz Jennings

23. “We’re all born naked, and the rest is drag.”

– RuPaul

24. “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.”

– Emma Watson

25. “Gender is not what people look like to other people; it is what we know ourselves to be. No one else should be able to tell you who you are; that’s for you to decide…Man and woman are two of many – stars in a constellation that do not compete but amplify one another’s shine.”

– Alok Vaid-Menon

Quotes on Allyship

Supporting the Pride Community

26. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

– Alice Walker

27. “Being an ally can’t just be about nodding when someone says something we agree with – important as that is. It must also be about action. It’s our job to stand up for those who are not at the table when life-altering decisions are made.”

– Kamala Harris

28. “When we’re free to love anyone we choose, when this world’s big enough for all different views, when we all can worship from our own kind of pew – then, we shall be free.”

– Garth Brooks

29. “…there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It’s the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It’s the chasm between being invited to a colleague’s wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.”

– Jodi Picoult

30. “We need to own that if you truly are taking stands against hate and oppression, you should not fund hate and oppression. Period.”

– Gabrielle Union

Quotes on Queer Visibility 

31. “If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can’t we just all live?”

– Margaret Cho

32. “We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.”

– Sylvia Rivera

33.”The whole issue of sexuality is so grey. I’m just trying to acknowledge that fluidity, that greyness, which has always existed. But maybe only now are we allowed to start talking about it.”

– Kristen Stewart

34. “Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.”

– Jeanette Winterson

35. “Each step forwards to become the person we are makes it harder to go backwards, to return to the shadowy, private world of closed doors and shuttered windows. The experience, the awakening of one’s true self, after being so long suppressed, can never be adequately explained with language.”

– Lili Elbe

Quotes About Owning Your Power

36. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

37. “If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”

– Zanele Muholi

38. “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in.”

– Chris Colfer

39. “This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?”

40. “Never stop believing in yourself. You had it all along.”

– Karamo Brown

41. “For a lot of my life, I was judged for my gender representation or my sexual orientation, or what people assumed of me; and every single time my goal has been to combat that and show my greatness.”

– Taylor Small

42. “I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive.”

Quotes on Changing History

43. “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizen of this country.”

– Zachary Quinto

44. “All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more — and no less — heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century.”

45. “I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act.”

– Janet Mock

46. “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”

– Bayard Rustin

Quotes About Equality

47. “History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.”

48. “Our community is not a monolith, thank goodness, any more than America itself is. I look forward to and will continue to work toward the day when America recognizes all of us as full and equal citizens.”

– Cynthia Nixon

49. “All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.”

– Andreja Pejic

Quotes on Disarming Prejudice

50. “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

– James Baldwin

51. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

52. “When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit.”

53. “To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”

Quotes About Acceptance

54. “Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it’s a good place to start.”

– Jason Collins

55. “Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”

56. “We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”

– George Takei

Quotes About Freedom

57. “It takes no compromise to give people their rights… It takes no political deal to give people freedom.”

58. “There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.”

– Larry Kramer

Quotes on Making the World A Better Place for All

59. “A long time ago I asked myself, ‘Do I want to be right, or do I want to be kind?’. I opted for kind.”

– Jane Lynch

60. “I once worried that there was no place for trans people like me to participate in any way in our politics. Since coming out, though, I’ve seen that change is possible and I’ve learned that the only things that are truly impossible are the things we don’t try. You can run, you can win and you can serve.”

– Sarah McBride

61. “Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.”

– Barbara Gittings

62. “It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.”

– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Quotes About Resilience

63. “Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.”

64. “Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.”

– Bob Parris

65. “I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity.”

– Selisse Berry

Quotes About the Power of Being Yourself

66. “We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay.”

67. “I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.”

– Brittney Griner

68. “The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I’m loving my body.”

– Sam Smith

69. “I want to make sure that any young person or anyone really who is looking up to me—who sees a glimpse of I am as a person—that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am.”

– Samira Wiley

70. “There’s no right or wrong way to be gay. No right or wrong way to come out. It’s your journey, do it the way you wanna do it.”

– Tan France

71. “I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that’s icing on the cake.”

– Jonathan Van Ness

72. “It takes a little bit of bravery to step out, to be like, okay, I don’t look like anybody else around here. I am making the conscious decision to present myself the way I want to today.”

– Hunter Schafer

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By Michael McColpin on June 14, 2017

This Pride Month, the United Nations Foundation has partnered with Gap Inc. to raise awareness and support for the United Nations’ Free & Equal campaign , which is dedicated to advancing equal rights and fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people around the world. LGBTI people are often among the most persecuted, marginalized, or at risk for violence and discrimination. All over the world, LGBTI people are routinely subject to discrimination simply because of who they are; 70 countries continue to outlaw consensual same-sex relationships

Despite all this, change is happening. Over the last few years, more people and countries have joined the movement for equal rights, with growing support especially among young people.

During Pride Month, you can show your pride by using #30DaysOfPride to raise awareness and support for the UN’s work to secure recognition and respect for LGBTI people everywhere. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, human rights begin “in small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. … Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.”

Here are nine more quotes to inspire you to continue the fight for equality.

• “I appeal to all governments and societies to promote the values of tolerance and respect for diversity, and to build a world where no one has to be afraid because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres
• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” – Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• “Human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent. They are not reserved for the few — they apply to everyone, everywhere. It is essential to reaffirm this fundamental principle and join forces to make it a reality.” – Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
• “We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation.” – Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General
• “I’m seeing changes in the community, [and] people now realize they’re not alone. …Now no one can ever say we [the LGBT community] don’t exist.” – Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, Co-Founder Freedom and Roam Uganda
• “I believe we can all come together, because if you take away the labels, you realize we’re far more alike than we are different.” – Ellen DeGeneres, TV host, comedian, and advocate
•  “The Independent Expert is firmly committed to building bridges…premised on international human rights law, reflective of local wisdom, and resonant with the universal message of ‘diversity in humanity, humanity in diversity’” – Vitit Muntarhborn, UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• “We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God’s family.” – Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• To realize a world of equality and dignity for all, we will have to change laws and policies; we will also have to change hearts and minds. Every sector and every person can play a role, speaking out to remind the world that it should not be illegal to live your life as you are and to live your life with whomever you love.” – Rick Parnell, Chief Operating Officer of the UN Foundation

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90 Greatest Pride Quotes To Navigate Its Complex Terrain

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Let’s get real about pride — the highs that uplift, the not-so-great moments that challenge, and everything in between, in an awesome collection of pride quotes!

10 Best Pride Quotes

1. “Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.” — William Hazlitt

2. “Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.” — Daniel Defoe

3. “Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” ― Andrew Murray

4. “When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.” — Louis XI of France

5. “Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.” — Baruch Spinoza

6. “It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.” — Georges Bernanos

7. “The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.” — George Eliot

8. “No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” — Fulton J. Sheen

10. “Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned.” ― Jeremy Aldana

Inspiring Quotes About Pride

1. “If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.” — Karen Horney

2. “Few people can walk in your shoes. You are the only one that knows your obstacles, challenges, and struggles. Be proud of yourself and the progress you’ve made.” — Edmond Mbiaka

3. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” — Shannon L. Alder

4. “Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.” — Paulo Coelho

5. “I’ve always been someone who believes in being real and embraces my imperfections with pride rather than covering it up.” — Zareen Khan

6. “Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” ― Rob Liano

7. “The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.” ― Bernard Cornwell

8. “Don’t allow the pride, ego, and insecurities of others stunt your growth.” ― Yvonne Pierre

9. “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

10. “You need to take pride in what God has given you.” ― Joel Osteen

11. “If you are driven by fear, anger, or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility, and peace nature will serve you.” ― Amit Ray

12. “If you see anything in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.” — Wellins Calcott

13. “If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.” ― Toba Beta

14. “Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.” — John Selden

15. “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” — Abraham Lincoln

16. “It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.” ― Abigail Tarttelin

17. “Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.” — Oprah Winfrey

18.  “Be happy being you. Don’t try to be anyone else. You’re unique, so be loud and proud.” — Apollo Ohno

19. “Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.” ― George Eliot

20. “Success is a long process. If you’re making steady progress on the path to your goals, you have already succeeded. Feel proud of that.” — Hal Elrod

See also: 220 Best Proverbs About Success To Give You Inspiration

Wise Pride Quotes

1. “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” ― Jane Austen

2. “Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds a hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.” — Francis Quarles

3. “The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.” — Baruch Spinoza

4. “Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

5. “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.” ― Soren A. Kierkegaard

6. “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” ― John Ruskin

7. “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” ― C.S. Lewis

8. “The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man’s error and misery.” — Alexander Pope

9. “The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.” — Democritus

10. “With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.” ― Criss Jami

11. “Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.” — Criss Jami

12. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ― Khalil Gibran

13. “With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.” — Ezra Taft Benson

14. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” — Augustine of Hippo

15. “Better look idiot and learn, than be proud and stagnant.” ― Abhijit Naskar

16. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.” ― Dale Carnegie

17. “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen

18. “Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.” ― Michel de Montaigne

19. “Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

20. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay

See also: 210 Best Quotes About Courage To Unleash Your Inner Hero

Motivational Quotes On Pride

1. “Don’t be ashamed of anything you’ve gone through. Be proud of everything you’ve overcome!” — Phil McGraw

2. “If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud. And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else.” — Oseola McCarty

3. “Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.” — Patricia Velasquez

4. “Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself . Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.” — Sonya Parker

5. “Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.” — Jeff Bezos

6. “I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.” — Dean Ambrose

7. “Pride comes before the fall. Stay humble.” — Unknown

8. “I pride myself on being a good friend, and all my friends can attest to that.” — Kyle Richards

9. “When you feel nervous, recall your pride.” ― Toba Beta

10. “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. Lewis

11. “Dear me, one day I’ll make you proud.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

12. “Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.” ― Donna Goddard

13. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

14. “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

15. “Being interesting isn’t important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you’re proud of.” ― Holly Bourne

16. “If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.” — Damon Lindelof

17. “Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.” ― Ana Monnar

18. “If you want to protect your pride, you don’t need people to like you!” ― Wataru Watari

19. “Don’t ever be afraid to promote yourself and your work. Be proud of your creations and emit that bountiful type of energy to the world. You will ultimately get it back in different forms.” ― Robin S. Baker

20. “Be proud and stand tall; Ain’t no one living your life.” ― Wazim Shaw

Thought-Provoking Pride Quotes

1. “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.” ― St. Vincent de Paul

2. “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ” ― Carl Gustav Jung

3. “We are rarely proud when we are alone.” ― Voltaire

4. “One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

5. “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.” ― Thomas Jefferson

6. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë

7. “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” ― Sophocles

8. “Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.” ― General Iroh

9. “Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.” ― Andrew Murray

10. “The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.” ― Criss Jami

11. “What you call pride, I call courage.” ― Jeff Zentner

12. “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

13. “[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.” ― Katherine Dunn

14. “Pride slays thanksgiving … A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

15. “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.” ― George Eliot

16. “Pride is the mother of arrogance.” ― Toba Beta

17. “Maybe what you need is less pride and more courage. Pride is the nickname we give fear.” ― André Aciman

18. “He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.” ― William Shakespeare

19. “Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

20. “The less worth of a man, the greater his pride.” ― Yukito Kishiro

Wrapping It Up

I’ve gathered these pride quotes from all over the web to capture the different sides of this concept. 

Let them inspire you to always value and take pride in who you are, but also to keep an eye out for when pride needs a reality check!

45 LGBTQIA+ Quotes To Celebrate Pride Month

Pride Month is a time for celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community, and one of the best ways to celebrate is to be inspired by some of their many voices.

Here are 45 inspiring quotes from famous members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies. These quotes will remind you of the courage and strength of the LGBTQIA+ movement and remind you that everyone should be celebrated for who they are.

For queer people, friends, families, and allies, these quotes are here to uplift and motivate. Celebrate Pride Month, and be proud of who you are.

Famous LGBTQIA+ Quotes

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind." – Dr. Seuss

"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains ." — Tennessee Williams

"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love." – John Lennon

"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." – Boethius

"I don't love just men. I love people. It's not about gender. It's just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you're with." — Kesha

"The Lord is my Shepherd, and He knows I'm gay." — Troy Perry

"The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I'm loving my body." — Sam Smith

"If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I'm shortchanging myself." – Zanele Muholi

"When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free." — Barack Obama

"I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet." — Dolly Parton

"So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." — Tim Cook

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." — Oscar Wilde

"I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly." – Stan Lee

"This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance, and the most relentless bravery." — Lady Gaga

"After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are." – Shrek

"I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you’re finally honest about who you are; you find others like you." - Chaz Bono

"For a lot of my life, I was judged for my gender representation or my sexual orientation, or what people assumed of me; and every single time my goal has been to combat that and show my greatness." — Taylor Small

Inspirational LGBTIA+ Quotes

"But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint." — Truman Capote

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." — Harvey Fierstein

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it because it's gotten me a pretty cool life. – Lena Waithe

"The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects." - Megan Rapinoe

"Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country." — Zachary Quinto

"People will stare. Make it worth their while." - Harry Winston

"I want to make sure that any young person or anyone really who is looking up to me—who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person—that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am." — Samira Wiley

"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning." — Harvey Milk

"Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay, black female is." — Lena Waithe

"There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in."‍ — Chris Colfer

"Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?" ― David Levithan

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life; you won't live any life at all." — James Baldwin

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." — Rita Mae Brown

"The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud." - Anderson Cooper

Gays are not interested in making other people gay…But homophobes are interested in making others homophobic." – Stephen Fry

"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges." — Bob Paris

"Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees." – Gloria Steinem

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and a woman, but between love and love." – Frank Ocean

Quotes About Pride Month

"When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows." - Rachel Houston

"Hope will never be silent." – Harvey Milk

"We are powerful because we have survived." — Audre Lorde

"Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts." — Barbara Gittings

"Stonewall represented, absolutely, the first time that the LGBT community successfully fought back and forged an organized movement and community." — Mark Segal

"You don't have to be gay to be a supporter; you just have to be human." — Daniel Radcliffe

"We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are." — Sylvia Rivera

"This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as a concern while it is inherently hate." – Tyler Oakley

"A long time ago, I asked myself, 'Do I want to be right, or do I want to be kind?'. I opted for kind." ― Jane Lynch

"Realize that your children are their own person and they may or may not act the way you want them to in terms of gender expression and that that's OK." — Laverne Cox

"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true." — Bayard Rustin

"Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself." – Billie Jean King

"You say 'be straight.' I say 'taste the rainbow." - Unknown*

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• “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
• “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
• “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne
• “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.” ― Will Rogers
• “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë
• “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” ― John Ruskin
• “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune." — C.G. Jung
• “Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” ― Andrew Murray, Humility
• “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” ― Sophocles, Antigone
• “All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.” ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World
• “We are rarely proud when we are alone.” ― Voltaire
• “Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ― Ann Landers
• “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.” ― Henry Cloud
• “It is easy to tell the toiler/How best he can carry his pack/But no one can rate a burden's weight/Until it has been on his back” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• “Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.” ― Tori Amos
• “Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.” ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
• “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.” ― Hubert Humphrey
• “He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.” ― William Shakespeare
• “Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.” ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
• “My rule of thumb for hitchhiking is: stick it up straight and proud and make if visible to all drivers.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
• “Pride is the mother of arrogance.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
• “The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.” ― Ezra Taft Benson
• “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.” ― Thomas Jefferson
• “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” ― Bryce Courtenay
• “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.” ― St. Vincent de Paul
• “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
• “One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
• “He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.” ― Stephen King, The Running Man
• “When you feel nervous, recall your pride.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
• “Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection
• “The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.” ― Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington
• “Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.” ― Douglas Wilson
• “Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
• “Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.” ― Diane Zahler, The Thirteenth Princess
• “Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
• “The tyrant is a child of Pride/Who drinks from his sickening cup/Recklessness and vanity,/Until from his high crest headlong/He plummets to the dust of hope.” ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
• “The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.” ― Thomas Moore
• “Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned.” ― Jeremy Aldana
• “There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.” ― Quintilian
• “You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.” ― Donna Ball, A Year on Ladybug Farm
• “The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.” ― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
• “Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
• “Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.” ― Michael Ayrton, The Maze Maker
• “Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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