Quotes About Pride

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.

As a Black woman and a Black person my experience has been very different. I have a deep love and connection for my country and my culture, but I also had a lot of difficulty growing up there.

I guess we all have that 'Dig Me' space, where we have some of our things displayed. Mine's a little bit more off the beaten path. You're not going to see it as soon as you walk into my house, but it does exist.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

I can never go back to a workspace where there's no dignity.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

I put pressure on myself to be the best and to carry on the Blanchard name with dignity and with pride.

I like to believe that there is dignity in everything.

I love being white, and I think it's something to be very proud of. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

I am naturally very disappointed to have lost my job but immensely proud to have served as Norwich City's manager.

My husband is so proud of me. He's in the Army, so he doesn't get to travel much with me, but when I come home, he's the exact same, so it's really nice to have him so disconnected from all the other stuff so my life can still feel normal at home.

The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

I'm game for a lot of things. But I won't disrespect myself in any way.

How can you disrespect the West Indies when we were so dominant in world cricket for so long? We have to face it ourselves because our own board don't defend us.

I'm not going to go to a team that's losing. I think that would be disrespectful to me to trade me to somebody like that.