Quotes About Pride

Since finding out my great-great-grandma was connected to the suffragettes, I've learned so much more about them. I feel really proud of her and that it's my heritage.

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

I am the hero of Africa.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

I showed everyone the medal and they said, 'Ooh, I can't believe how heavy it is,' Sometimes they were more interested in the medal than in me. I was like, 'Hey, what about me?'

The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and judge. We are a prideful people who believe that anything that will make us seem 'less than' should be hidden.

There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

Even though I present as heterosexual, I've been all over the planet sexually and proud of that and never tried to hide it.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

People should never apologize for who they are, and they should never hide who they are. Hating yourself is so 2011.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.

I've met people who are embarrassed of the stuff they've done, and they try to hide it. And I'm not embarrassed of anything.

Every gay man will tell you that 'coming out' is like a weight lifted from your shoulders and beng able to walk down the street knowing that there is nothing for me to hide has been a liberating experience.

I hope, by never hiding, I can show there is never anything to be ashamed of when we are being our true selves.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.

When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

Ere long, I learned that it was not myself, but only my shadow, that I had lost. I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.