Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Hazlitt

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Narendra Modi

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Narendra Modi

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

Louise J. Kaplan

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Genevieve Gorder

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.

Henry Rollins

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 B. Eyring

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Helen Hunt Jackson

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Henry Bolingbroke

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry David Thoreau

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

Henry Ford

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Manny Farber

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.

Malcolm X

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Mahatma Gandhi

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

John C. Maxwell

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

James Joyce

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

James Russell Lowell

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

James Russell Lowell

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

James Russell Lowell

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

James Purefoy

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

Laurence Sterne

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

LaMarcus Aldridge

I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

Lamar Odom

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

George Gillespie

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Jojo Moyes

Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

Johnny Otis

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Johnny Damon

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

John Churton Collins

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Eric Hoffer

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.