Quotes About Pride

Being Scottish is something you have in your heart not something that comes off your tongue.

There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

The African greats who were playing when I was growing up inspired me - players like George Weah, Abedi Pele, Tony Yeboah, Kalusha Bwalya, and all the others who made Africa proud.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino's mother and father.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

Growing up, I admired old cars. In Chicago, on the South Side, people didn't have the newest cars, but one thing I always noticed was that they took good care of their cars. It was a pride thing. Even if you had a funky Oldsmobile, you kept it clean. You changed the oil. You took a toothbrush to the rims.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.