Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

David Lloyd

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

Roger Miller

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Thomas Merton

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Tony Evans

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Tommy Lee Jones

I look upon pride as a sin.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Jan Morris

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

Bryant H. McGill

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

bell hooks

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Arianna Huffington

Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

Brene Brown

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ...The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

Bruce Lee

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

Bruce Lee

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

Ben Jonson

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

John Piper

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

Michel Foucault

there is no glory in punishing

Cassandra Clare

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

George Sand

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

Michael Eaton

I don't like to bask in the glory of it. I just like to let my legs do the talking. It's better not to say anything and just go do it.