Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mauvolyene Adams

Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.

Shane Voss

I've always take a lot of pride in the scholar-athlete (concept).

Steve Hutchinson

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Brian Weiss

You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Democritus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Mark Strand

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.