#pride

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

#driven #enormous #excel #good #great

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

— Martin Luther

#pleasure #pride #riches #world

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#belongs #best #charley #country #country music

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

#because #being #comes #culture #day

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

#death #different #different thing #during #fear

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

#certain #created #did #even #ever

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am. ↗

— James McAvoy

#being #being myself #comfortable #i #i am

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

#american #back #back up #else #fail

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

#area #been #countryside #cube #deals

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

#american #ancestry #certain #certain degree #common