Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Evelyn Ashford

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Francis Chan

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

Francine Pascal

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Francis Bacon

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Francesca Annis

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Frances Wright

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Ford Frick

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

George W. Romney

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

George Washington

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

George R. R. Martin

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Garth Ennis

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

Frederick Buechner

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

George Eliot

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

George Eliot

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

George Eliot

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Gary Numan

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness.

Isaac Watts

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Franz Grillparzer

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Jim Carrey

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Jemima Kirke

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

Jean-Paul Sartre

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Georges Bernanos

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

George Weinberg

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.