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Quotes About Pride

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
~ Evelyn Ashford
Celtic supporters want to be proud of their Club. That's all they want. It is what they deserve.
~ Fergus McCann
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.
~ Christopher Moore
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
~ Amy Tan
It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.
~ Robert Pattinson
A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.
~ Kid Rock
We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.
~ Kerri Walsh
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm proud of my brother. I would never not want to be associated with him.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.
~ Muhammad Ali
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
~ Randy Harrison
If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.
~ Casey Stengel
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.
~ Common
I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
~ Bill Watterson
We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.
~ Cindy Klassen
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.
~ Domenico Cieri
All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.
~ Honore de Balzac
For all the women - especially the young women, who put your faith in me - I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.
~ Hillary Clinton
My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.
~ Ilona Andrews
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
~ Adam McKay
You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.
~ Adepero Oduye