Quotes About Pride

When I'm retired, I want to be able to tell my kids I played in a European Cup final. I don't want to have to say I watched one from the substitutes' bench, then kept getting knocked out in the quarters and semis.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

I grew up in Louisiana - a little suburb right outside of New Orleans - and I wouldn't have it any other way!

When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

America wants its respect.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

where my culture I'm told holds no significance I'll wither and die in ignorance But my inner eye can c a race who reigned as kings in another place

Every American must feel a thrill of pride and gratitude in the thought that his country is the refuge of the oppressed, . . . and however wretched be the material offered to him from the refuse of other nations, he accepts it with generous hospitality.

What I have learned in this life is that you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.