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.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for ‚Automobile Magazine.‘ I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I’m more proud of that than anything.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

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.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

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.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

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.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

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.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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.

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.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

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.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

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

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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.

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.

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.