Quotes About Pride

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

If I were to characterize George Washington's feelings toward his country, I should be less inclined than most people to stress what is called Washington's love of his country. What impresses me as far more important is what I should call Washington's respect for his country.

Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.

Nakon što sam obranio doktorat, majka bi me s velikim zadovoljstvom predstavljala ovim rije?ima: »Ovo je moj sin. On je doktor, ali ne od onih koji pomažu ljudima.«

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

It was just tiresome thinking about folks having to fight for the least little thing. I loved my people for fighting, but hated the reason why, and that left me with that crosscut notion of pride and anger pulling in different directions, two kinds of muscle fighting for the same piece of bone.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

We only kill each other to see ourselves as heroes in our fathers' stories.

I've done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness. The only way we can advance is by going forward, individually and collectively, in the spirit of the pioneer. We must take the risks involved in our free enterprise system. This is the only way in the world to economic freedom. There is no other way.

Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently, no happiness.

A subject of much greater concern to me, however, was the great french-fry flop. I had explained to Ed MacLuckie with great pride the McDonald's secret for making french fries. I showed him how to peel the potatoes, leaving just a bit of the skin to add flavor.

To do the job which you've got really well; so well that you don't lose your self-respect doing it':

It was a love affair of the highest order, an unsupervised joyride into the depths of what could have been, me back into the womb, bathed in her mercurial amniotic fluid, imagining that she might rub her belly with pride, no longer pretending I wasn't there as she had the first time. She would push and strain in labor and keep me this time, forever.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

I've been nothing several times. But it's my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of.

To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.

By the time I'm wrinkly and old, I'll have kids and grandkids that I'm watching grow up. I'll be proud of what I've achieved in my life, and I'm not going to worry about my looks so much.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

I'm from Cameroon, Central Africa.