Pride Quotes

‘If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.’ – Bear Bryant

‘It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.’ – Saint Augustine

‘As a mom to biological children and adopted gay children all around the world, nothing gives my heart strings a tug as much as seeing a parent stand by their queer/gay/trans child with beaming pride.’ – Michelle Visage

‘The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.’ – George Santayana

‘There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.’ – Carl Jung

‘As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.’ – Wale

‘Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.’ – Steve Jobs

‘My pride fell with my fortunes.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘We rise in glory as we sink in pride.’ – Andrew Young

‘Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.’ – John Steinbeck

‘In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.’ – John Ruskin

‘What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.’ – William Wordsworth

‘With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am.’ – James McAvoy

‘I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.’ – Michael Jackson

‘A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Music is made one of Satan’s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘I have come to the conclusion that it’s a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it’s good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.’ – Henry Rollins

‘The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.’ – Samuel Butler

‘I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.’ – Tom Cruise

‘We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.’ – Logan Browning

‘Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘Quality is pride of workmanship.’ – W. Edwards Deming

‘Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.’ – Dan Gable

‘The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.’ – Johnny Cash

‘Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.’ – Fulton J. Sheen

‘I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.’ – Tony Hawk

‘Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.’ – David Binder

‘Jamaica is more than just the ‘brand’ the world recognizes so well; it’s a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.’ – Portia Simpson-Miller

‘The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘I am a Hindu, and I have pride in that.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.’ – William Penn

‘Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!’ – Bad Bunny

‘Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘I’ve always been someone who believes in being real and embraced my imperfections with pride rather than covering it up.’ – Zareen Khan

‘The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?’ – Kanye West

‘Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality – the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.’ – Petrarch

‘To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one’s faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.’ – Randa Abdel-Fattah

‘The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.’ – John Mackey

‘I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.’ – Colin Kaepernick

‘I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.’ – Hosea Ballou

‘Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.’ – Naveen Jain

‘You need to be humble, play with pride but also aggression.’ – Gianluca Vialli

‘Pride and excess bring disaster for man.’ – Xun Kuang

‘The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.’ – Martin Luther

‘A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘For me, putting on my charro outfit is a matter of pride and it’s a very big responsibility.’ – Vicente Fernandez

‘Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.’ – Abu Bakr

‘Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.’ – Huston Smith

‘Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.’ – Mother Angelica

‘All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!” – John F. Kennedy

‘If one takes pride in one’s craft, you won’t let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.’ – Paul Keating

‘There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.’ – Pope Francis

‘I’m an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.’ – Harland Williams

‘I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.’ – Muriel Rukeyser

‘By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.’ – Susan Lieberman

‘All the world wondered as they witnessed… a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.’ – Steven Biko

‘It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.’ – Marcela Valladolid

‘Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.’ – Voltaire

‘I would say I’m a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there’s no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.’ – Miley Cyrus

‘Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.’ – Ford Frick

‘I pride myself on being unique in my own right. I wanted to be myself.’ – Terence Crawford

‘Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.’ – Dolph Ziggler

‘Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it’s one of the most interesting ones.’ – Gene Wilder

‘Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.’ – John Chrysostom

‘One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.’ – Billy Graham

‘I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!’ – William Blake

‘Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.’ – Giorgos Seferis

‘In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘Size doesn’t really matter. It’s all about the mental aspect of the game and having the heart. I have a lot of heart and I take a lot of pride in what I do. That’s what got me over the hump.’ – Tavon Austin

‘I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘I’ve got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you’ve got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘It’s my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it’s a luxury on a level that I didn’t even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.’ – Julia Roberts

‘There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.’ – George Washington

‘Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.’ – Aeschylus

‘The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I’m a shortstop, man. That’s where I’ve played my whole career. Obviously it’s a position I take a lot of pride in.’ – Xander Bogaerts

‘Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘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.’ – John Lennon

‘Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn’t have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.’ – Karl Marlantes

‘To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities.’ – Julia Child

‘We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn’t vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.’ – David Suzuki

‘If you want to be good defensively and go farther in this process, you’ve got to do certain things. So, I’m just taking great pride in boxing out, being physical, playing tough, being active and getting those rebounds. That’s my job.’ – Jonas Valanciunas

‘Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It’s like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.’ – John Lithgow

‘I’ve never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me – who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person – that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am.’ – Samira Wiley

‘I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.’ – Ashley Graham

‘There is magic in Scotland. It’s country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.’ – Gayle Rankin

‘The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.’ – Morrissey

‘It’s no one’s fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?’ – Joan Collins

‘Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego.’ – Henry Sy

‘It’s so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don’t major on the minors.’ – Kimberly Schlapman

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

‘People always say, ‘There are plenty of black country artists out there! There is Charley Pride! Darius Rucker!’ That’s all they can name. They don’t understand what we go through, and a lot of people who are fans of traditional country music, as they call it, look at us and aren’t going to say, ‘Y’all like country music.” – Kane Brown

‘Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.’ – Michelle Obama

‘If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years. I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.’ – Brittney Griner

‘When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not ‘disgraced’ because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man’s life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.’ – Jules Verne

‘There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘One may be humble out of pride.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?’ – Saint Bernard

‘If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart – poisoned as it is with pride and pain – and replacing it with his own.’ – Max Lucado

‘For a quarter of a century, I’ve been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It’s been risky. I’ve broken both my legs. I’ve sprained everything I’ve got between my ankles and my disposition. I’ve dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.’ – Rabbit Maranville

‘We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek

‘My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.’ – Declan Rice

‘Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.’ – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

‘The Warriors are a lifestyle. I love every Warrior that stayed. They represented Oakland with pride. I love the Warriors. I love Oakland. I love the people.’ – Lil B

‘Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.’ – Joe Paterno

‘I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.’ – Salma Hayek

‘I was brought into the life of one Bas Rutten in 2001 at a grappling tournament that I was attending to support a friend of mine. I had never met Bas before but, of course, knew who he was: the King of Pancrase, UFC Heavyweight champion, and the commentator with Pride.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.’ – Ai-jen Poo

‘I’ve got favorite sweatshirts and my Buffalo Bills sweatshirts that I’ve had for years. I will never abandon them. They are my pride and joy.’ – Chad Michael Murray

‘What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I’m Charley Pride, country singer. Period.’ – Charley Pride

‘I really try to pride myself on route running, catching and being able to be a mismatch anywhere on the field.’ – Christian McCaffrey

‘A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘I don’t say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.’ – Sean Combs

‘Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.’ – Alexander Pope

‘In true, narcissistic fashion, when my father was diagnosed as a narcissist, he called us all up individually to tell us, and he did it with true pride.’ – Neal Brennan

‘A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It’s all a matter of pride.’ – Nancy Lopez

‘My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I’ve been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.’ – Derek Walcott

‘The fact that I’m very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It’s nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.’ – Kate Bosworth

‘Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.’ – Fedor Emelianenko

‘When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.’ – Hugh Newell Jacobsen

‘Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘I pride myself on being a family man. I pride myself on being respectful and hardworking. That’s just me.’ – Alexander Volkanovski

‘Men in Rajasthan pride themselves on their moustaches. It is a sign of their masculinity.’ – Ashish Sharma

‘Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I really take pleasure and pride in singing the way people expect me to.’ – Russell Mael

‘I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.’ – Billy Porter

‘Every time I’m in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I’m in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It’s funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I’ll take it all.’ – Malin Akerman

‘Don’t sell your country’s pride for a few bucks.’ – Milkha Singh

‘The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick

‘When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.’ – Mother Angelica

‘All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.’ – Ray Kroc

‘Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.’ – Bear Bryant

‘Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.’ – August Alsina

‘I remember, when I was a teenager, ‘Pride And Prejudice’ came out. We hadn’t had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There’s nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.’ – Sherry Argov

‘I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.’ – Randall Cunningham

‘I’m proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father’s legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights – his legacy is about setting the stage.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘I love the sport, and I have for a long time. I’d stay up late and watch the Pride New Year’s Eve shows. I watch all the UFC pay-per-views. I’m a fan. I love this stuff.’ – CM Punk

‘If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.’ – Charles Stanley

‘I have pride in my son, how can I not be proud? – Alberto Fernandez’ – Alberto Fernandez

‘Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.’ – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

‘As a defender, we take pride in getting clean sheets.’ – Harry Maguire

‘Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. ‘How everything affects me’ is the center of all that matters – self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.’ – Jane Austen

‘What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.’ – Emil Cioran

‘They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.’ – Michael Jackson

‘How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.’ – Aaron Levie

‘It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.’ – William Hazlitt

‘My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.’ – Wesley Snipes

‘So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.’ – John Steinbeck

‘I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don’t have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage – I certainly do.’ – Troy Deeney

‘Each bowler has his own pride when bowling in the nets but it’s vital that you get ball on bat and then you are ready to use the opportunity when you are out in the middle.’ – Viv Richards

‘Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.’ – Joanna Baillie

‘Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.’ – David Blunkett

‘I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.’ – Dizzee Rascal

‘It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.’ – William Gilbert

‘Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‘if’ we will fall, but ‘when.’ There are no exceptions.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I try to pride myself on being nice to everyone and not letting egos get in the way.’ – Taylor Louderman

‘I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That’s what I’ve done my whole life.’ – Zach Ertz

‘I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.’ – John Lydon

‘I don’t want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That’s why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I’m in deep trouble.’ – John Carpenter

‘Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It’s a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you’re starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.’ – Adam Scott

‘I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn’t putting my opinion first. It’s supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.’ – Virgil Abloh

‘Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.’ – Gherman Titov

‘We take pride in what we do.’ – Coolio

‘Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. ‘Don’t try to make it on your own, because it won’t be enough. The kids won’t be fed:’ My mom believed that lie. So I’ve lived with a poverty mentality. But after I got my first job, at a local McDonald’s, and I got my first check, I felt such a sense of pride.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into… the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole ‘America First’ movement.’ – Stephen Miller

‘The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.’ – Harold Warner

‘Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.’ – Susanna Moodie

‘All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.’ – W. Edwards Deming

‘My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘I don’t work for money any longer. I’m fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one’s own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.’ – Tom Ford

‘I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘Pride will spit in pride’s face.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘He took pride in belonging to the world’s most exclusive club: the United States Senate.’ – Margaret Truman

‘I think my ultimate sin – and it was really terrible – was that I had this insatiable pride.’ – John DeLorean

‘We don’t live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.’ – Yoko Ono

‘I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I’m bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.’ – Grace Kelly

‘One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘It has nothing to do with money. We don’t play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.’ – Patty Mills

‘I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn’t feel allegiance to anything. I didn’t have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.’ – Stewart Lee

‘The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It’s a magical, welcoming place.’ – Sarah J. Maas

‘In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘The turban is a Sikh’s honor, pride and art.’ – Puneet Issar

‘I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.’ – Richard C. Armitage

‘There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.’ – SZA

‘I am not welcome in the New York City Pride Parade whatsoever. I am not welcomed, that has been made very clear to me multiple times.’ – George Santos

‘I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.’ – Bad Bunny

‘There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn’t ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I’m there for.’ – Chiwetel Ejiofor

‘I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I’d done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.’ – Carroll O’Connor

‘I’m a competitor, and I’m sure a lot of people who don’t get to play because of an injury, whether it’s their pride or their ego, whatever it is, they want to be out on the field.’ – Josh Allen

‘The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.’ – Robert Burns

‘I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story’s coming from me.’ – Dua Lipa

‘I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father’s livestock while he was away on holiday.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it’s more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don’t think the game will stay that way.’ – Gabriel Batistuta

‘One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We’re able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.’ – Adam Clarke

‘Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.’ – Camille Paglia

‘The resilience, tenacity and zeal of our valiant air warriors is a source of pride for every Indian.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.’ – Art Modell

‘Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘Transfer windows are pretty much the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Sloth, gluttony, envy, greed, lust and pride are all represented in the frenzy of the market.’ – Simon Jordan

‘It’s crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That’s something for me – as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.’ – Mother Angelica

‘I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.’ – Billy Graham

‘Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.’ – Francesca Annis

‘But for me as a player, I pride myself on understanding the game and having a really good soccer IQ.’ – Stephanie Labbe

‘Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.’ – Barack Obama

‘For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly – their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘I feel as if I’m God’s champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.’ – Jon Jones

‘I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.’ – Thomas Peterffy

‘I take a lot of pride in what I do.’ – Kenny Omega

‘Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘If you do something you love, you take pride in it. You try to do it your best.’ – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

‘I tell people I’m a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I’m somebody’s husband, I’m somebody’s father. I’m a man. I take great pride in that.’ – Steve Harvey

‘It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.’ – Ben Harper

‘I take pride in lyrics. I take pride in music and staying on beat and being on key.’ – Tech N9ne

‘As the proud daughter of a Greek immigrant who came to the United States in search of the American Dream, I feel an enormous sense of pride in my heritage.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn’t take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn’t exist. I don’t even think the word ‘gay’ was in existence.’ – Larry Kramer

‘I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.’ – Nick Saban

‘Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘The thing about wrestling in front of eight people in a bingo hall is that the spots still hurt. The chops still hurt. Your body still hurts the next day. But when you love wrestling, it doesn’t matter. You do it for the pride and the respect of the business.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘My durability is just something I took a lot of pride in, that I was able to play 70 games over and over and over and they add up to 1,200-and-something games, plus the playoff games, plus whatever.’ – Martin Brodeur

‘There is a pride in speaking this language.’ – Bernard Pivot

‘In an ideal world, nobody’s work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.’ – Barry Schwartz

‘Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don’t see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.’ – Nina Easton

‘Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country’s prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.’ – Ryan Fitzpatrick

‘As a black woman, there’s so much pride and communication through hair. It’s naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.’ – Kelela

‘I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.’ – Daddy Yankee

‘Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It’s a bad time to be right.’ – Joni Mitchell

‘If you are a housewife, take pride in that.’ – Anthea Turner

‘Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I want to be great at what I do. I take a lot of pride in it. And I try not to sell myself short in my work and preparation.’ – Joey Votto

‘Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community’s armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.’ – John Thorn

‘As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.’ – Albert J. Nock

‘I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I’m going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘I don’t believe in nationalism. I think it’s a bunch of slogans. It’s a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.’ – Miguel Syjuco

‘Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.’ – George A. Smith

‘While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.’ – Gregory Maguire

‘Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.’ – Mark Pagel

‘When I’m considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it’s going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It’s an element of a lot of big stories.’ – Erik Larson

‘I’ve been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds – and I don’t mean it to sound – every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.’ – Brantley Gilbert

‘I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full of pride and self-love and have the chance to be loved for who he truly is. I was realising with great sadness that I didnt get that experience.’ – Darren Hayes

‘I’ve changed, and I’ve learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I’m supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.’ – Horace

‘Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.’ – Nancy Lopez

‘To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.’ – Kim Campbell

‘I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction – pride in a job well done.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.’ – Jules Verne

‘I’d knock people over and bruise their pride, but I never went out to hurt people. That is not acceptable, and I don’t want to see it in my team.’ – Mark Hughes

‘Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‘MIA.’ That’s the best part of it.’ – Bad Bunny

‘What I pride myself on mostly is making the game easier for my teammates.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Pride is not just any summer festival. It is a celebration – but it is also a manifestation of human rights. It is serious – and joyful. It is a reminder of the progress that has been made – but also of everything that still remains to be done.’ – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

‘To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘To me, Pride is loving myself and not making excuses for anything: Live in your truth.’ – Da Brat

‘What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.’ – Theodore Bikel

‘It wasn’t a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.’ – Wayne Kramer

‘It’s true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we’re the dominant hockey nation in the world.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘I take much pride in winning. I don’t accept losses, so I’m always going after that. The day I lose this fire, I think it’s time for us to stop.’ – Jose Aldo

‘It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it’s not easy to maintain that attitude.’ – Paul Hawken

‘I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it’s a country, like I am the Bronx.’ – Cardi B

‘There’s pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I’ve never worked there or played in band there, but it’s a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city.’ – Trombone Shorty

‘Doing something the right way is something I take pride in.’ – Frank Thomas

‘The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter.’ – Dave Mustaine

‘I pride myself on being tragically uncool.’ – Kate McKinnon

‘There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.’ – Norman Mailer

‘It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.’ – Margaret Truman

‘In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.’ – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

‘I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.’ – Alan Paton

‘The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.’ – Fred W. Friendly

‘Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.’ – Laura Schlessinger

‘That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.’ – John Ruskin

‘It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.’ – Georges Bernanos

‘There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.’ – William Hazlitt

‘Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?’ – Comte de Lautreamont

‘The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.’ – Sholom Aleichem

‘The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.’ – Nicolas Chamfort

‘Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.’ – Henry IV of England

‘Pride the first peer and president of hell.’ – Daniel Defoe

‘One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.’ – Josh Billings

‘In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.’ – Robert Hunter

‘Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.’ – Horace Mann

‘For too long, we have focused on our differences – in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs – rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.’ – Bob Riley

‘I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.’ – Mary Roberts Rinehart

‘It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.’ – Murray Rothbard

‘I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.’ – Christopher Dodd

‘We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That’s what families care about.’ – Jodi Rell

‘I look upon pride as a sin.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.’ – Claude Bernard

‘As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada’s place in the world is one of influence and pride.’ – Paul Martin

‘My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.’ – Conrad Veidt

‘Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.’ – Alain Rene Le Sage

‘If I’d have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It’s a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.’ – Herb Brooks

‘After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride… it’s not much but at least I have my pride.’ – Jay London

‘What I miss when I’m away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.’ – Billy Martin

‘There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.’ – Jerry Doyle

‘Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.’ – John Zimmerman

‘I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.’ – Paul Thomas Anderson

‘I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it’s something I pride myself on.’ – Richard Gough

‘They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don’t do that. So what we’re doing by this program is strengthening America.’ – Alphonso Jackson

‘The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.’ – George Gillespie

‘The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.’ – John W. Foster

‘Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.’ – Gary Ackerman

‘This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.’ – Walter Lang

‘If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘So we take a lot of pride in that. It’s really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we’ve done just that. We’ve pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we’re starting to head towards that. Right now we’re in a nice rhythm.’ – Kevin Garnett

‘We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.’ – Charlie Dent

‘The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.’ – George Richards Minot

‘This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.’ – Johann Arndt

‘There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.’ – Douglas Hurd

‘As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.’ – Roy Clark

‘I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.’ – Julie Benz

‘Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum – one people out of many.’ – Mike Rogers

‘Rap’s conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.’ – David Foster Wallace

‘Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.’ – Steve Kanaly

‘So it’s a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.’ – Blair Underwood

‘From what I can see, too many kids don’t learn pride in their country anymore.’ – John Ratzenberger

‘The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it’s okay to fail as long as you don’t give up.’ – Dan O’Brien

‘We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.’ – John Thorn

‘We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.’ – John Thorn

‘I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.’ – Francesca Annis

‘So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it’s a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.’ – Camryn Manheim

‘The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.’ – Bob Schaffer

‘As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.’ – Joe Baca

‘The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘Jim Crow was king… and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.’ – Lou Brock

‘Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn’t angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn’t understand why Robin had done it.’ – Maurice Gibb

‘Some of today’s athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.’ – Linford Christie

‘I think it’s great that they are getting funding, but it’s just too easy. They don’t have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.’ – Linford Christie

‘Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation’s support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?’ – Theodore Bikel

‘I had to produce a complete page – or two or three – in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.’ – Joe Shuster

‘The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.’ – Mary Antin

‘At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It’s part of who you are and doesn’t need to be discussed anymore.’ – Sandra Bernhard

‘Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.’ – Hesketh Pearson

‘When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.’ – Ralph Thomas Walker

‘American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.’ – Herbert Croly

‘Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.’ – Lorrie Fair

‘Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let’s not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.’ – John W. Thompson

‘Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.’ – Boris Kodjoe

‘We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.’ – Robert Toombs

‘Manchester has it’s own pride and London has it’s sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.’ – Graham Coxon

‘I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.’ – Garth Ennis

‘A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.’ – Zebulon Pike

‘The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it’s so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it’s lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘I’ve been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘And I like the look on people’s faces when I say I’m doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I’m in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.’ – Edward Irving

‘Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that – and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.’ – Todd Solondz

‘Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.’ – Genevieve Gorder

‘Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother’s parents were very steeped in.’ – Robert Jay Lifton

‘Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘I always took a great deal of pride in being original.’ – Roger Miller

‘The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He’s a step closer to the slum he came from.’ – Floyd Patterson

‘Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.’ – Janet Street-Porter

‘A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.’ – Walter Bagehot

‘People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.’ – Charles Dickens

‘By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.’ – James Madison

‘I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL – once the leading Internet company in the world – can return to its past greatness.’ – Steve Case

‘Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.’ – Arthur Hays Sulzberger

‘The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.’ – Minna Antrim

‘The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.’ – Zhu Rongji

‘It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects… that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.’ – Joseph Story

‘There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.’ – Barack Obama

‘Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.’ – Arthur C. Brooks

‘I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to… people who mean something special to us.’ – James De La Vega

‘I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.’ – John Lasseter

‘Let’s stand up. Let’s speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.’ – Rick Perry

‘I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I’m not going to direct a movie.’ – Julia Roberts

‘We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It’s something that I definitely always remember, when I’m playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.’ – Christina Ricci

‘If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.’ – Angela Merkel

‘So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride – that’s everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.’ – Tim Tebow

‘I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people’s faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.’ – Drew Brees

‘I think you always take pride in how you play.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family – Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma – because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.’ – Joely Richardson

‘Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.’ – Giuliana Rancic

‘I’ve always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It’s a point of pride for me.’ – Justin Long

‘I pride myself on being kind.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘I grew up reading ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – girly kind of books.’ – Leighton Meester

‘The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.’ – Matt Stone

‘We’re not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn’t mean that every church that doesn’t join them isn’t a church.’ – Pope Shenouda III

‘I remember in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum’s funeral. Actually, she’s very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.’ – Carey Mulligan

‘I’m continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.’ – Dayron Robles

‘I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.’ – Erik Larson

‘To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that’s what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.’ – Tiffeny Milbrett

‘I don’t look to a man to get pride in myself. It’s not about having a black president, it’s about having a good president, and I think that’s the most important thing.’ – Allen West

‘I can say with pride verging on smugness that I’ve got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.’ – Steven Moffat

‘At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that’s what is about for us. My job is about making your job easier. I take a lot of pride in the quality of what I present, especially in ‘Money Saving Meals.” – Sandra Lee

‘I take pride in everything I do. I don’t want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.’ – Evelyn Ashford

‘I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.’ – Bode Miller

‘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.’ – Bryan Adams

‘If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.’ – Danny Boyle

‘Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you’re making records, you’re dealing with musicians’ tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone’s individual pride.’ – Scott Weiland

‘But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we’re trying to accomplish, and that’s just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that’s been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that’s kind of what I want to keep doing.’ – Webb Simpson

‘Really, it’s only been since the ’70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.’ – Dave Foley

‘One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘He’s a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!’ – Reince Priebus

‘Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!’ – Richard Trumka

‘It just doesn’t occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It’s what we do. It’s who we are.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘I think that the idea that I’m writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There’s even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.’ – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

‘I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.’ – Sean Combs

‘All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘Whether it has been supporting Corby’s new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.’ – Louise Mensch

”Pride’ is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I’ve come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.’ – Joe Wright

‘These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.’ – Anne Lamott

‘I take great pride in all the tremendous success we’ve enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.’ – Leslie Moonves

‘But sports photography isn’t something you just pick up overnight. You can’t do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.’ – Drew Carey

‘I can’t re-examine work I did in the past with pride.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out – do work out a lot.’ – Rod Stewart

‘When I was 8, I was reading ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and all that, not knowing it wasn’t my reading level.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it’s something I take great pride in when it’s finished.’ – Nate Ruess

‘Look, I’ve got incredible pride for my family. I’ve absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.’ – Christian Bale

‘Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It’s part of the conversation at church. It’s part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It’s what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.’ – Junior Seau

‘I take some pride in… representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.’ – Robert Downey, Jr.

‘Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.’ – Elizabeth Wurtzel

‘When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I’m proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.’ – Doug Collins

‘I’ve always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.’ – Duane Chapman

‘Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘Maybe I over-do the ‘not-80s’ thing. It should be a part of my life that I’ve got some sort of pride in, but I’ve got this huge chip on my shoulder about ’80s nostalgia – and it annoys fans sometimes.’ – Gary Numan

‘I’m fully aware that ‘Doctor Who’ will always, always be part of my life, and that’s not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.’ – Freema Agyeman

‘When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it’s a point of pride in a weird way.’ – J. J. Abrams

‘There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.’ – Michael Gove

‘I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.’ – Cat Deeley

‘I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.’ – J. R. Martinez

‘I’m really proud of ‘Moneyball.’ To me, it’s about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I’m an old man I’ll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That’s all I can really go for: making movies to please me.’ – Jonah Hill

‘I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.’ – Ne-Yo

‘Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.’ – Idina Menzel

‘I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, ‘My father’s a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I’m a Jew,’ with great pride.’ – Ed Koch

‘I’m pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.’ – Johann Lamont

‘And I don’t consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial – that’s what it is. It’s expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I’m concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.’ – Tony Kushner

‘I’ve never been one to just do what I’m told. I don’t say that necessarily with pride, it’s just something that has gotten me in trouble before.’ – Jemima Kirke

‘I have a screened in porch, and it’s nice to curl up with a book outside when it’s raining, especially an old battered classic like ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.” – Amanda Hocking

‘I’m dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That’s the challenge and that’s what it’s all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.’ – Big Boi

”Pride and Prejudice’ – perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book – is engrained in our literary consciousness.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘It’s absurd to think of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you’re reading for a while.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘It’s a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.’ – Irvin Kershner

‘I don’t know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don’t feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.’ – Abbas Kiarostami

‘Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.’ – Lee DeWyze

‘I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.’ – Stacy Keibler

‘Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can’t read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.’ – Deborah Harkness

‘Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.’ – Paul Henderson

‘It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for ‘Monsoon Wedding,’ and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego… And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.’ – Mira Nair

‘There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘You can’t embarrass Joss Whedon, he’s got no pride! He fully admits it. ‘Oh, it’s me. I’m little and goofy.’ You can’t wound his pride. He’s too self-deprecating.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘Well, I am producing a show that’s going to be on NBC this fall. It’s called ‘School Pride,’ and it’s a reality show where we’re going around the country and renovating schools. It’s really great.’ – Cheryl Hines

‘I guess what I’m really saying is something obvious – that there’s a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we’re not supposed to be any good.’ – Serge Schmemann

‘All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a ‘rate of production,’ for whom it’s a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.’ – Graham Swift

‘The most moving scene for me in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy’s sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy’s look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth’s eyes.’ – Andrew Davies

‘I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will be with a really pretty feminine blouse underneath.’ – Bridget Kelly

‘I think that the poorest of the poor… look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.’ – Vijay Mallya

‘Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.’ – Bear Grylls

‘In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these ‘shoulds.’ Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you ‘should’ behave. But what if you’re living your life by the ‘shoulds’ and you’re not really living your life?’ – Chris Noth

”Being green’ is commendable, but I hope that people don’t take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.’ – John Bercow

‘I’m certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it’s a fantastic opportunity for anybody – regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you’re from and to know what your roots are.’ – Danny Pino

‘I feel pride in being a Greenlander.’ – Aleqa Hammond

‘The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.’ – Jimmie Johnson

‘I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that’s so dated: It’s not about effort, it’s about outcomes.’ – Maynard Webb

‘You’ll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.’ – Andrew O’Hagan

‘I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn’t there an enormous building in Washington called the ‘National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns’ to lobby for us?’ – Larry Kramer

‘I’ve actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I’ve always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I’m a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!’ – Jennifer Nettles

‘I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit – I love it.’ – Jennifer Nettles

‘It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY’s List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.’ – Ellen Malcolm

‘Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.’ – Gail Collins

‘I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of ‘white guilt.’ But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.’ – John Piper

‘Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.’ – Anne-Marie Slaughter

‘We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.’ – Anne-Marie Slaughter

‘The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.’ – Anne-Marie Slaughter

‘There isn’t a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which I often re-read.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.’ – Zadie Smith

‘Before seeing ‘The Pride of the Yankees,’ you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.’ – Manny Farber

‘I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.’ – Kellie Pickler

‘I’ve learned there’s nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance – I wore it like a badge of honor.’ – Becki Newton

‘I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don’t believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on ‘Seinfeld,’ because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.’ – Bill Lawrence

‘I don’t mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.’ – Simon Cowell

‘A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I’ve practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it’s something I take pride in being able to do.’ – Avicii

‘Anyone who has read my books will know that I don’t tend to use guides when I am travelling. It’s not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.’ – Bill Bryson

‘I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.’ – Bernie Mac

‘I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.’ – Bibhu Mohapatra

‘When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it’s always around and you’re very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.’ – Joseph Altuzarra

‘The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.’ – Morrissey

‘Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That’s what they do; that’s their living, that’s their pride, that’s their joy. They don’t achieve that because they happen to be human.’ – David Stern

‘The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘Galveston.’ Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big.’ – Keith Urban

‘Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.’ – George W. Romney

‘Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.’ – Yelawolf

‘I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that’s always hard to take.’ – Ricky Ponting

‘Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.’ – Jacqueline Leo

‘I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.’ – Terry McMillan

‘Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.’ – Kylie Bax

‘I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a ‘Flashdance’-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in ‘Go For It!’ is my own dance move.’ – Aimee Garcia

‘I’ve seen ‘Pride and Prejudice’ about 4,000 times. I’m not joking: I know every single line.’ – Claire Foy

‘Plus-sized women shouldn’t think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn’t mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.’ – Donatella Versace

‘There’s no pride in having been a child soldier.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘I spent money, and I kept thinking, ‘I get one more movie and I’ll wipe these bills out,’ but that movie never came. That black pride, I said, ‘Man, I’m going to hang in there, I’m going to pay these bills.’ So you owe a million dollars. ‘I can pay that.’ OK, fines, fees, now you owe two and a half million. ‘But I didn’t do nothin’!” – Sinbad

‘Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity – enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Pride is ugly. It says, ‘If you succeed, I am a failure.” – Ezra Taft Benson

‘In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Essentially, pride is a ‘my will’ rather than ‘thy will’ approach to life.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I’m still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like… I take pride in my work and I’m not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain’t really passionate about doing it. I’m very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.’ – B.o.B

‘I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That’s how ‘The Cosby Show’ came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.’ – Keshia Knight Pulliam

‘I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn’t take one show off.’ – Lea Salonga

‘India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.’ – Simon Beaufoy

‘I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn’t want to let go of what had come to be billed as ‘The Total Package.’ I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.’ – Lex Luger

‘Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state’s education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.’ – Wendy Davis

‘I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.’ – Louis Gossett, Jr.

‘I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.’ – Wale

‘I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.’ – John Cena

‘I, and others like me – trap stars – we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.’ – Young Jeezy

‘My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.’ – Rahul Dravid

‘I’m never going to forget Wellston. It’s where I grew up. It’s my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I’m going to give back. I was born and raised here. I’m a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.’ – Ben McLemore

‘I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter’s soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.’ – Bill Simmons

‘All the people that come out and show their support and their pride for your accomplishments, I think it really reminds you that without people you don’t ever to get to live that dream. To play in the NHL is one thing, but to win the Stanley Cup and come back and share it with everyone is another thing.’ – Jonathan Toews

‘I’m light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that’s something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it’s weird.’ – Chance The Rapper

‘I love the romance of the ’40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn’t so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.’ – Bethany Joy Lenz

‘There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what’s ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.’ – Matt Barr

‘I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.’ – George Kell

‘People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.’ – Mithun Chakraborty

‘One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don’t think you would say to yourself, ‘Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.” – Salman Rushdie

‘The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.’ – Richard Simmons

‘I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have ‘God’ on its side.’ – Penn Jillette

‘Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.’ – Charlie Pierce

‘When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time… Of course it’s not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.’ – Colm Toibin

‘Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It’s just straight-out ego gratification – how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.’ – Richard Foster

‘To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.’ – Queen Latifah

‘There’s this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that’s very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.’ – Tom Hanks

‘If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don’t need it.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.’ – Saint Bernard

‘I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘I feel really proud of my work on ‘Sullivan & Son.’ It’s a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that’s who I am at my core, but that’s never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.’ – Valerie Azlynn

‘The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘The people with money to build today are corporations – they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.’ – Philip Johnson

‘A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them – jobs, money, pride.’ – Paul Theroux

‘A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don’t feel that way. I feel like it’s another medium to reach a broader audience.’ – Grace Helbig

‘Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its ‘pride,’ ‘courage;’ it’s all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don’t think there’s anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints’ lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘I’d rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.’ – Mara Wilson

‘I can’t take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.’ – Mara Wilson

‘I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there’s an audience out there that supports that.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘The ‘Best of British’ is a positive thing that’s bandied around, but also it’s applied pressure to our country in terms of economic growth. I think we’ve always felt the rest of the world is so much more powerful in terms of being commercially viable, but we can take great pride in our level of creativity.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘I feel ‘proud’ whenever I feel that I’ve worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I’m not sure if I think in terms of ‘pride’ though.’ – Tao Lin

‘I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody.’ – Michael Learned

‘I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.’ – Martin Parr

‘I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn’t instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.’ – Trey Songz

‘Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.’ – Richard Attias

‘Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That’s just my own observation.’ – Tom Rath

‘Pride adversely affects all our relationships – our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘It’s hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel’s success in classical music.’ – Zubin Mehta

‘We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it’s from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone’s feelings. But what I have seen on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.’ – Nate Berkus

‘My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.’ – Lulu

‘Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you’re about, and everything I do is really about pride.’ – Tom Ford

‘I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.’ – Aerin Lauder

‘My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.’ – Sheherazade Goldsmith

‘I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.’ – Mr. T

‘Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I’ve been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don’t want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.’ – Monica Johnson

‘In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.’ – Weili Dai

‘Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.’ – Henry Rollins

‘All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.’ – James E. Faust

‘People don’t do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there’s jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.’ – Frederica Mathewes-Green

‘For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn’t sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.’ – John Kline

‘Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, ‘There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.’ This is my dream.’ – Rain

‘The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don’t have pride, you lose that edge.’ – Doug Harvey

‘I take pride in saying that I am an army officer’s daughter even more than being an actor.’ – Anushka Sharma

‘There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.’ – Binyavanga Wainaina

‘It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.’ – Bill Cosby

‘I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won’t need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.’ – Said Sayrafiezadeh

‘The thing I learned from ‘Pride and Glory’ is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.’ – Gavin O’Connor

‘It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.’ – C. J. Mahaney

”Wonder Woman’ was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.’ – Constance Marie

‘Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy’s heart beat for her, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘I got to direct a human interest sports drama – to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.’ – Bill Paxton

‘We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren’t controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn’t believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it’s owned by a small group of people, we realize it’s biased, etc.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘That was my pride and joy – that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.’ – Tom Glavine

‘When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.’ – Hassan Rouhani

‘I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we’re always competitive in it. That’s something I’ve taken a lot of pride in my whole life.’ – Tony Stewart

‘I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.’ – Kapil Dev

‘Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders – of both parties and both presidencies – who failed us.’ – Kathleen Troia McFarland

‘I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don’t have to hurt anybody to be really funny.’ – Ross Mathews

‘My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.’ – Peter Scolari

‘Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.’ – Kurt Angle

‘In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.’ – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

‘I’ve never read ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it’s a zombie story, it’s also ‘Pride and Prejudice.” – Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

‘In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.’ – Kumar Mangalam Birla

‘Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it’s something I pride myself in.’ – Carl Hagelin

‘I love hard work. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.’ – James Corden

‘I thought every other kid was like me. I’d watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw ‘Pride And Prejudice,’ the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for ‘Cranford’ to be my first job was poetic, really.’ – Kimberley Nixon

‘I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it’s in film, TV or theatre. My dream role’s already been taken by Keira Knightley in ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.’ – Roxanne McKee

‘I’m not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.’ – Janet Montgomery

‘I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance – looks are important to me, but it’s also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don’t like a girl, then she’s instantly a no-go.’ – Luke Pasqualino

‘I don’t look back on any film I’ve done with fondness or pride.’ – Nicolas Roeg

‘It’s always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.’ – Liane Moriarty

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

‘If people are offering help, it’s because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘I support Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.’ – Kyle Massey

‘I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.’ – Rigoberta Menchu

‘I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we’re capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That’s what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.’ – Anthony Pettis

‘Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity – something in which we can take incredible pride.’ – Mike Crapo

‘What always made me proud – almost blushing with pride – is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that ‘The Conformist’ is their first modern influence.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.’ – Fede Alvarez

‘I think people who don’t work don’t really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than anything, it hurts them. When you’re born rich, people just associate you with what you’ve been given, but the truth is every individual feels better when you create something on your own. Everyone takes pride in the work they do.’ – Jamie Johnson

‘I wear my age with pride.’ – Tyra Banks

‘Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.’ – Bryant Gumbel

‘Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.’ – Allen Covert

‘I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because ‘Bikram’ has restored it.’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.’ – DeAngelo Williams

‘There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.’ – Luke Donald

‘Whether it’s from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.’ – Cheech Marin

‘The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.’ – Daniel Snyder

‘The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.’ – Al Sharpton

‘The ‘Pride and Prejudice’ with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.’ – Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.’ – Lorraine Toussaint

‘Being robbed hurts – not physically, but from what it does to your pride.’ – John Boyega

‘Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you’ll figure out your own beauty in time.’ – Tamara Taylor

‘Recognizing your talents doesn’t mean believing they’re limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn’t lead to pride, but instead to humility; you’re less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.’ – Gina Barreca

‘When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term ‘Jew.” – Louis D. Brandeis

‘Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn’t do anything else well, but I could do words.’ – Cynthia Voigt

‘I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that.’ – Marcy Kaptur

‘Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.’ – E. F. Benson

‘My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.’ – John Caudwell

‘Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.’ – Stella Young

‘I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it’s just a pleasure to see that.’ – Kevin A. Ford

‘No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome’s true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.’ – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

‘Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I’d never booked a show in my life, but that I’d played so many because I’d been invited?’ – Ariel Pink

‘CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.’ – Fabiola Gianotti

‘Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone’s leg off and still not be booked.’ – Luis Suarez

‘Being physical is something I pride myself on.’ – Richard Sherman

‘I have such pride in my job.’ – Richard Madden

‘Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.’ – Fred DeLuca

‘You can’t generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.’ – Antonia Bird

‘If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, ‘Don’t listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!” – Peter Capaldi

‘I’d imagine if there were more Scottish people making Scottish movies about Scotland, it would not only be educational, but it would instill a sense of pride.’ – Henry Ian Cusick

‘I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don’t want to be your umpteenth Fantine in ‘Les Miz.” – Rachel Tucker

‘India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don’t have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I’m one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.’ – CeeLo Green

”Pride and Prejudice’ is often compared to ‘Cinderella,’ but Jane Austen’s real ‘Cinderella’ tale is ‘Mansfield Park.” – Susanna Clarke

‘In some ways, ‘Mansfield Park’ is ‘Pride and Prejudice’ turned inside out.’ – Susanna Clarke

‘I don’t do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.’ – Ruth Rendell

‘If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.’ – Evan Osnos

‘China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.’ – Evan Osnos

‘I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I’m very defensive, but I’m trying not to be like that anymore.’ – Maggie Cheung

‘We released ‘The Interview’ through a variety of platforms, and we continue to look for other distribution options. Throughout this whole process, we never stopped – not for a single moment – trying to secure a broad release. Our studio takes great pride in continuing to grow the release of this movie and making it a success.’ – Michael Lynton

‘I always say it’s worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It’s worth holding out. It’s worth having pride.’ – Geraldine Page

‘One of the best things about the award season is that when a British film succeeds at the Oscars and BAFTAs, such as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in 2009 and ‘The King’s Speech’ this year, the British public get right behind it with an immense sense of national pride.’ – Gurinder Chadha

‘Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don’t just find talent, they groom talent.’ – Kelly Sue DeConnick

‘At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That’s the whole idea of effective weight loss – it’s permanent because it’s part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own – you own it.’ – Jean Nidetch

‘Fish butchering means a lot to me as a chef; I take pride in it and get a lot of joy from filleting fish, working with fish, breaking down fish, trying to understand fish.’ – Wylie Dufresne

‘My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.’ – John Edgar Wideman

‘I don’t think I’m a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I’ll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that’s it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra.’ – Shamir

‘We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.’ – Lynn Coady

‘I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today’s standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world.’ – Isabella Bird

‘I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London’s West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name – Steed’s name.’ – Patrick Macnee

‘Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.’ – George Vecsey

‘We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.’ – Gina Barreca

‘As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had.’ – Stacey D’Erasmo

‘We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we’ve put in.’ – Clay Matthews III

‘The flip side of humiliation is pride.’ – Gary Weiss

‘I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.’ – Rachel Bloom

‘I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they’re asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.’ – Patrick Kane

‘I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.’ – Narendra Modi

‘I welcome newcomers to cons, or ‘con-virgins’ as I like to call them, by saying ‘Welcome to the ‘Supernatural’ Circus,’ and I mean it. We take pride as a cast to deliver a show that not only entertains the fans but ourselves, Creation Entertainment, and everyone involved on both sides.’ – Matt Cohen

‘How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with ‘I Love Lucy.” – Lucille Ball

‘There’s nothing I don’t know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you’ll get that through looking at one of my pictures.’ – Don McCullin

‘Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.’ – Don McCullin

‘Ultimately, I’ve learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I’ve always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.’ – Karen Elson

‘I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘I pride myself on working with great musicians.’ – Prince

‘Asking myself, ‘Is this any good?’ is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can’t tell anyway. It’s always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.’ – Liane Moriarty

‘My game is kind of built around hitting shots – that’s what I take pride in, and it’s what separates myself from other guys.’ – Graham DeLaet

‘We’ve all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there’s no way back, no pride to hold on to.’ – Daniel Espinosa

‘I don’t know if people consciously get in the way of their own success. In fairness, people have a lot of pride, and they fall back on what they know to be safe and correct. Anybody, including me, struggles with change.’ – Marcus Lemonis

‘Listen, don’t get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America ’cause some many people who know the secret want to live there.’ – Cory Booker

‘There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.’ – John Burroughs

‘The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.’ – Yair Lapid

‘My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like there’s a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.’ – Thomas Kail

‘If you don’t know about the ‘black male code,’ you should. It’s something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you’re not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you’re wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.’ – Donna Brazile

‘I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there’s always someone more beautiful!’ – Amber Heard

‘After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, ‘I’m not as good as I thought.’ It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It’s more than money. It’s more than the title. It’s my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It’s scary.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘I don’t fear Holmes, but I think he’s a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn’t be fighting him if I feared him. It’s going to be a tough fight. People say with all the hoopla out there, I won’t be able to handle it. I believe the pressure’s on him. I’m just going to do my thing.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.’ – Bonnie Hunt

‘People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.’ – Ted Deutch

‘When the USS New Jersey is commissioned, it will be a source of pride for everyone in our state for decades.’ – Rodney Frelinghuysen

‘I’d be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That’s one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip – because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, ‘This baby of ours will never want for anything.’ There was real pride in that – but it just didn’t happen.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘I’m a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I’ve made some psychedelic birthday cakes.’ – Greg Rutherford

”Pride And Prejudice’ takes place in a similar period to ‘Vanity Fair,’ and yet there’s a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.’ – Natasha Little

‘As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, ‘The elements, I’m not going to let them affect me. It’s just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.” – Ashton Eaton

‘The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.’ – Adrienne Mayor

‘At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I’ve always designed, and I would literally design everything I’d see: cars, bikes, motorcycles – everything.’ – Giuseppe Zanotti

‘In the district of Hizan, through the influence of Shaikh Abdurrahman Tagi, known as Seyda, so many students, teachers, and scholars emerged, I was sure all Kurdistan took pride in them and their scholarly debates and wide knowledge and Sufi way. These were the people who would conquer the face of the earth!’ – Said Nursi

‘When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.’ – Said Nursi

‘I take a lot of pride in my songs.’ – Mike Posner

‘I think that’s what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that’s on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I’ve either experienced or felt. And I’m very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.’ – Mike Posner

‘A girl’s best friend is her pride.’ – Vanity

‘I try to pride myself in having really quick feet and being able to set up and throw balls in time.’ – Jared Goff

‘That’s what I love the most about being a quarterback. Everybody looks to you to make a play. They look to you to say something that’s going to spark the team. I take full pride in that every single day.’ – Chad Kelly

‘I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America, and I am very proud to come from there. I am also proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this, and I pride myself on not being a judgmental person.’ – Steve Clevenger

‘I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn’t have gotten ‘The Riot Club’ if I wasn’t in England. I wouldn’t have gotten ‘Pride’ if I hadn’t done ‘The Riot Club.’ And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?’ – Ben Schnetzer

‘I have some pride in the things I’ve done, but I’m pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.’ – Greg Mottola

‘I remember, after ‘Tumbleweeds,’ my friend and I wrote ‘Pride and Glory.’ I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11 happened. And it was over. By September 12, it was over. And rightfully so. I understood that.’ – Gavin O’Connor

‘I pride myself in figuring out how to elevate a dish with a little preserved lemon or, then, a sprinkle of Maldon salt.’ – Meghan Markle

‘My mother always said to carry yourself with dignity and pride, and I just think Audrey Hepburn totally epitomizes that, you know? From such a young age, she was dancing ballet. There was a lot going on in her life… that was during the time of the Nazis.’ – Auli’i Cravalho

‘I’m a big reader, so when I was in ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.’ – Talulah Riley

‘To me, race is not all about grievance. It is also about pride and empathy and humanity and understanding the value of difference. But along with that, there are also expectations that we should set for ourselves and for others. We should expect to be treated as equal citizens.’ – Gwen Ifill

‘I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open – they were the ones I wanted to win.’ – John McEnroe

‘I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I’d be there, and I wouldn’t say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn’t say anything.’ – John McEnroe

‘Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America’s darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.’ – Billy Crystal

‘I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.’ – Billy Crystal

‘The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is rewarded in a climax that I, and most golfers, will never experience.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are ‘denialists.’ But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own – perhaps more so than Republicans.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we’ve come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it’s big.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don’t know why I equate being brave with fighting.’ – Kenneth Lonergan

‘Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.’ – Kathleen Flinn

‘Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.’ – Sonny Mehta

‘There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.’ – Daniel Barenboim

‘All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.’ – David Petraeus

‘Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.’ – Peter Bergen

‘New York’s various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.’ – Darryl Pinckney

‘Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle’s visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.’ – Darryl Pinckney

‘I’ve taken great pride in not being fragile.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That’s not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I’m not interested in what the audience has to say.’ – Retta

‘We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.’ – Donald Trump

‘It’s getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I’m surprised by.’ – Karan Mahajan

‘It’s easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don’t get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It’s hard to feel pride and ownership when you don’t understand where things are going.’ – Jason Fried

‘Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘I think I’m slightly OCD. I’ll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride wears off almost immediately, and fear of not doing a good job sets in. I’ll think, ‘This is a dream come true,’ and then, ‘It’s not OK until I get a good review.” – Will Poulter

‘I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.’ – Bhagat Singh

‘I’ve got a lot of people I’m carrying on my back, but it’s a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.’ – Max Baucus

‘I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I’ll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I’ll be in love with cucumber farms.’ – David Seltzer

‘I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.’ – Nargis Fakhri

‘I really, really pride myself on being a professional and a man of keeping my word. It means a lot to me, truly.’ – Charlie Hunnam

‘The white working class wants jobs. They don’t want to be stuck trying to make ends meet with part-time work and government assistance. They want a good paying job that they can take pride in. The type of job that has fled America thanks to the Left.’ – Milo Yiannopoulos

‘I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello’s first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride – always do.’ – Harry Kane

‘I take full pride in the fact that I’m from Chandigarh.’ – Yami Gautam

‘I love this city. There’s Cleveland pride in it for me. Everyone has each other’s backs here.’ – Stipe Miocic

‘I take pride in being a jack of all trades.’ – Ezekiel Elliott

‘I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I’m a better fighter when the lights come on because it’s right now – there is no tomorrow.’ – Andre Ward

‘I don’t take much pride in fake fighting.’ – Donald Cerrone

‘As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.’ – Mick Foley

‘Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in ‘The Pride and Passion,’ and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!’ – Don Rickles

‘We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.’ – Sonya Walger

‘I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, ‘This button here, My dad made it.’ There was this sense of pride. It’s knowing your dad is doing something cool.’ – Michael Pena

‘There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it’s a point of pride.’ – Damian Lewis

‘If there’s one thing that chafes French pride, it’s seeing the British steal the limelight.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride – even, in some ways, guilt.’ – Dana Perino

‘Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.’ – Greg Gutfeld

‘Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers’ Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.’ – Kim Jong-un

”Black’ is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I’ll say ‘black people.’ But if I’m talking about a person, I’m going to say ‘a Negro,’ because I was taught to say that, and I don’t see any reason to change it. I don’t think that gives pride or anything else. I don’t think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘I was a goody two shoes – a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘My game is hard work and pride. On the all hard-work team, I’d pick myself five times.’ – Moses Malone

‘You didn’t hear anything about ‘Celtic Pride’ when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.’ – Jack Ramsay

‘Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, ‘FBI.” – Robert Mueller

‘It’s good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.’ – Sam Hunt

‘I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or Lil Wayne. It’s just that I’m a big fan of music. I’m a student of music. And I just want to learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.’ – Trombone Shorty

‘The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.’ – Brandon Webb

‘In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ it is played for laughs.’ – Adam Cohen

‘Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.’ – Adam Cohen

‘I think, with ‘Pride,’ I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.’ – Faye Marsay

‘Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with ‘Pride,’ certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we’re pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.’ – Faye Marsay

‘I look forward to doing my part to keep our solemn vow to veterans who have served our country with pride and distinction. They are all heroes in my eyes, and they deserve no less.’ – Marc Veasey

‘Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet’s teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.’ – Hamza Yusuf

‘Take pride in your work. But it is not all there is.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘I want to do something that I’m proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.’ – Bruce Rauner

‘The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there’s a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.’ – Jason Isbell

‘I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.’ – Eric Berry

‘Oh Lord… I don’t really do pride.’ – Simon Rattle

‘When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you’ve just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes – those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.’ – Karin Slaughter

‘When 1.2 million people come together for Pride in Toronto, that’s great, but we now need to start paying it forward and thinking about the rest of the world.’ – David Furnish

‘I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick – sometimes in the same hour on the same station!’ – Darius Rucker

‘I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.’ – Darius Rucker

‘I don’t ever assume that people are going to love or appreciate what I do. It would be great. I don’t assume that they’re not going to. I just am like, ‘I’m going to do my absolute best at everything I do, and I’m going to put it out with pride and hope people enjoy it.” – Tig Notaro

‘I pride myself on having a really authentic music sound: no gimmicks, just my vocals.’ – Rotimi

‘We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.’ – Tim Duncan

‘The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.’ – Jake Arrieta

‘The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I’m like, ‘This is me. I’m black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.’ I just feel it’s my being.’ – Jessica Williams

‘The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person’s humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.’ – John Dickerson

‘We’re pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that’s not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.’ – Jacob deGrom

‘We do take pride in how we look, but it’s really just like, take a couple minutes, and you’re ready to go.’ – Jacob deGrom

‘Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates our love of Minneapolis.’ – Betsy Hodges

‘I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.’ – Jason Pierre-Paul

‘I take a lot of pride in my first ’92 gold medal.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘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.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘Kiss is a super – they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.’ – Paul Rudd

‘We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.’ – Ali Fazal

‘My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won’t take assistance from anybody.’ – Victor Mitchell

‘I’m happy every time I stand up in court and say, ‘George Brauchler for the people of Colorado…’ I take no shame in that; I take pride in that. My mom took pride in being an attorney, too.’ – George Brauchler

‘The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I’m on court, it is all about my game.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘You have to take a certain pride in your work.’ – Dean Ambrose

‘I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.’ – Dean Ambrose

‘My father passed me the concept that vicuna was something very special, very expensive. So it was a question of pride. I didn’t want anybody else in the world to be touching vicuna before us.’ – Pier Luigi Loro Piana

‘I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That’s huge! That’s Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.’ – Fat Joe

‘I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.’ – Zach LaVine

‘My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.’ – Paloma Elsesser

‘I can’t tell you how lucky I feel. I’ve gotten to work Peter Facinelli ‘American Odyssey,’ and I got to do ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2′ – which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I’ve really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me.’ – Elena Kampouris

‘I certainly think that Southerners are tough, and I take pride in that.’ – Jake Peavy

‘Rampage Jackson came to the UFC with a brain. He came to the UFC with a huge following from being in Asia with Pride. He was a personality before he came to the UFC. You don’t see them putting marketing money behind him to blow him up.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘I’m a true professional. I don’t play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.’ – Antonio Brown

‘It’s a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, ‘Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,’ and we really stuck to that.’ – David Bryan

‘Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.’ – Maya Soetoro-Ng

‘There is certainly a future for Italian football, as we have pride, ability, determination, and after bad tumbles, we always find a way to get back on our feet.’ – Gianluigi Buffon

‘I was raised to take pride in homemaking, and it’s something that I always love to do. I know I share that pride with millions of other women all over the world. It’s a good feeling, and it makes me happy.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘I took the same pride in my dishwashing job as a child as I take in running my company today.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘I’ve had the four best seasons of my career at Leicester and have loved every moment. I feel immense pride to have been a part of what we have achieved during my time at the club, culminating in becoming Premier League champions.’ – Riyad Mahrez

‘The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.’ – Anderson Silva

‘Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes – pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.’ – Keith Jackson

‘It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘There’s a sense of authenticity that comes with ‘Ebony.’ There are very few national media outlets that are majority-African-American owned and really speak to our community with a sense of pride, authority, and ownership. That’s what we do.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry.’ – Vivek Ramaswamy

‘I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them.’ – Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘A lot of characters I’ve played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.’ – Mekhi Phifer

‘My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.’ – Dawn Richard

‘In 1984, Jim Koch used his family’s lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest ‘craft’ brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, ‘Take pride in your beer.” – Elizabeth Flock

‘I remember telling my mom, ‘Mom, I’m gay, but I’m not going to march in a parade or anything.’ That’s what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I’m gay, but I’m not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘We have the finest military in the world, an elite group of men and women who continue to be a tremendous source of national pride by routinely putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.’ – Jon Gruden

‘I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me – guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That’s how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.’ – Jon Gruden

‘I still get lots of folks who remember my days on ATWT and AMC. As a matter of fact, they’re the proudest fans of all because they feel like, ‘We were here first,’ before I had other fans from all my other shows and movies. They feel a deeper sense of pride and connection to me and have followed my career ever since 2002.’ – Lamman Rucker

‘At Translation, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse agencies in the industry – and with that diversity comes a wealth of different talents and perspectives. The onus is on us to empower our employees to use those considerable talents to create real systemic change.’ – Steve Stoute

‘I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.’ – Dan Amboyer

‘I kind of muddled through ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ but with ‘Atonement,’ I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts – I didn’t know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.’ – Joe Wright

‘As a Swiss-Italian who has always worked for foreign banks, there was clearly an element of pride going back to my roots and working for the biggest bank in my country.’ – Sergio Ermotti

‘Road trips are amazing because you get to see the true India from a street level and interact with people from different states that have so much pride in their local heritage, food, and customs.’ – Shenaz Treasury

‘I pride myself on being Japanese American.’ – Mirai Nagasu

‘Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted – brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.’ – Sinead Burke

‘People in tech love to see their work as embodying the ‘hacker ethos’: a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.’ – Jenna Wortham

‘I am the oldest in our family. I have three younger brothers. I needed to set a great example for them. It instilled a sense of competition in me and hunger to strive to be the best. There’s a lot of pride being the only girl and the oldest.’ – Hilary Knight

‘When you’re able to love and appreciate and take pride with yourself, that makes everything easier. It makes it easier to train, it makes it easier to be in the gym, and it makes it easier for everyone else to accept and love you.’ – Gus Kenworthy

‘I take pride in how great my relationship is with Chris, but having said that, of course, in this crazy world where he’s off doing movies and I’m in L.A. raising our child, of course I’m going to feel vulnerable, like any normal human would.’ – Anna Faris

‘I’ve always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.’ – Andrew Yang

‘We really pride ourselves on the notion that what makes our program special is that we really do our very best to make sure that everything we do is culturally responsive and relevant.’ – Kimberly Bryant

‘Every country wants to protect its athletes because it’s ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.’ – Bryan Fogel

‘We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.’ – Coy Bowles

‘Success gives you a platform for further success – suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging – it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I’m writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it’ll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I’m concerned.’ – Justin Tranter

‘I have a weakness for treating people’s economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.’ – Anand Giridharadas

‘I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud when Chicago recently made computer science mandatory as a requirement for graduation. To see this elevate to the level of a bigger conversation is progress.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.’ – Eva Marie Saint

‘I believe Kendrick Lamar is not only an artist but an influencer of an entire generation. He represents Compton with great pride, and I am honored to present him with the Key to the City, which symbolizes our deep appreciation for his philanthropic work and commitment to our community.’ – Aja Brown

‘I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.’ – Aja Brown

”Fringe’ has been a point of pride. I share the passion for the show that the fans have.’ – Kevin Reilly

‘I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.’ – Mike Schultz

‘I take a lot of pride in my photography.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘I’ve certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like ‘American Idiot’ and ‘In the Heights,’ and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just ‘Old Man River.” – Joshua Henry

‘Each time I turn on my own television screen and see reflections of myself in other courageous young LGBTQ-identifying actors and artists, I know that the dream is expanding. That would not be possible without LGBTQ Pride. Celebrate yourself, and the world will catch up.’ – Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

‘I’ve been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can’t escape it even if I don’t like it. I take pride in carrying forward what’s been given to me.’ – N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.

‘Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it’s like a moth to a flame. There’s a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.’ – Jessie Buckley

‘Trump is most fun to draw – just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.’ – Jake Tapper

‘I pride myself on being available to as many people’s stories as I possibly can.’ – George C. Wolfe

‘There is a strange kind of parental pride when ‘Topdog’ ends up on Broadway, or ‘Elaine Stritch.” – George C. Wolfe

‘It’s our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that’s about and all the people who fought for it.’ – Andrew Whitworth

‘I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.’ – Patrisse Cullors

‘I pride myself on being limber.’ – Dennis Haysbert

‘I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I’ve been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.’ – Elvis Duran

‘I don’t think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.’ – Elvis Duran

‘I see ‘Eligible’ as a homage, and I see ‘Pride and Prejudice’ as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can’t dispute my fondness for the novel.’ – Curtis Sittenfeld

‘When I get in there, I’m not really worried about scoring. I’m just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I’ve been a scorer all my life, so that’s what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.’ – Terry Rozier

‘I always tried to pride myself on my versatility – I can’t just be the ‘iSpy’ guy.’ – Kyle

‘There’s absolutely no part of what I do that my dad doesn’t have the utmost pride in. It doesn’t matter what the job is – he’s… supportive. Same with my mother.’ – Madeline Brewer

‘I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.’ – Andrew Zimmern

‘I’ve had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn’t always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.’ – Annaleigh Ashford

‘That’s one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.’ – Demetrious Johnson

‘Most people in Uganda have something good to say about Amin – ‘He was funny; he gave us pride to be African.” – Kevin Macdonald

‘Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘At Affectiva, we hire top talent – and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘No one likes a pushy parent, and, ‘pride’ being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel’s new ‘Spider-Man.” – Dominic Holland

‘With the launch of Big Machine Premium Vodka, we are now offering a superior product that perfectly complements the music we take such great pride in.’ – Scott Borchetta

‘You can’t give up. If you set yourself a target, you’ve got to keep on until you achieve it. It’s a matter of having pride in yourself.’ – Bradley Walsh

‘When you say you’re from Virginia, when you travel outside of this state and somebody asks where you’re from, you say with pride, ‘I am from Virginia. I’m very, very proud of it.’ You’re very, very proud of it. And why is it? It’s because of our history, folks. It’s because of our history.’ – Corey Stewart

‘I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.’ – Lauv

‘You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to make a song about saving money because it’s ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.’ – Lil Dicky

‘People in the Midwest, there’s a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity – ‘That’s great – you’re awesome!” – Lou Barlow

‘If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘Havana is a source of great pride to the Cuban people.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.’ – Martha McSally

‘Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I’ve played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn’t come close to describing who I really am.’ – Nick Foles

‘I took pride in everything when it came to Canada. Not even just Toronto, everything that came with Canada, wearing that Toronto Raptors jersey.’ – DeMar DeRozan

‘My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.’ – Robert Lepage

‘I used to wear the German shirt with such pride and excitement, but now I don’t. I feel unwanted and think that what I have achieved since my international debut in 2009 has been forgotten.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘One of the things I pride myself on is that my fan base is progressive, but I don’t shy away from people who think differently from me. I welcome productive conversations, but it’s important for me to not hide where I stand.’ – Natasha Rothwell

‘I trained myself by doing other people’s songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It’s all about the soul – where the soul comes from.’ – Ann Wilson

‘Being Miss Universe is much more than having a sash and a crown. It is about taking pride in my commitment to serving as an ambassador to my country – and to women everywhere.’ – Leila Lopes

‘I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I’m saying hip-hop, not rap. That’s what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.’ – No I.D.

‘I take a lot of pride in helping people become great. I think that’s an element of being a producer that people don’t always take in: They want to be great for themselves, whereas I’d like to be recognized as having helped the most people get over the hump.’ – No I.D.

‘I’ve been wrestling for many years; I’ve accomplished a lot – but I take pride in being genuine, honest, and down-to-earth. Those are the qualities I really respect about myself, so I’m really pleased when I see that the energy that I want to exude is well received.’ – Rob Van Dam

‘When you’re from the islands, that’s that pride.’ – Deandre Ayton

‘Some of you may think that I’m a loser: an unmarried adult with not much money. The old me would have been way too embarrassed to admit all this. I was filled with useless pride. But I honestly don’t care about things like that any . The reason is very simple: I’m perfectly happy just as I am.’ – Fumio Sasaki

‘We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.’ – John Gourley

‘Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it’s a celebration of all that we’ve accomplished.’ – Sasha Velour

‘Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.’ – Jinder Mahal

‘Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I’ve documented the gay pride parade from its first days.’ – Bill Cunningham

‘For me, being a part of the halcyon days of Pride Fighting Championships and then watching the explosion of the UFC following the ‘Ultimate Fighter,’ I’ve been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘Pride was a date night – the cool thing to do at the time – so people were dressed to the nines, and they got quite an experience, visually and otherwise. It was Cirque du Soleil meets the Super Bowl meets WrestleMania meets your favorite rock n’ roll concert.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘No matter what job I’ve undertaken, whether it was Glory Kickboxing or Strikeforce or Pride Fighting Championships or Showtime Championship Boxing, you have to play by the rules of the company you work for.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘When I was growing up, ‘Ebony Magazine’ was a must read in our household. In those pages I found our news, our stories, and my pride.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘I got to know the world of football fans and their pride in it, how they would find a family away from home. Most of them came from broken families. It always had a bit of romance to me, when I went to the game with all these boys that would just die for each other.’ – Lexi Alexander

‘Everything I do, I have a certain amount of pride for.’ – Diamond Dallas Page