Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

Enoch Powell

The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

James F. Cooper

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Emily Bronte

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

We still have pride in our game. We still want to win.

Jules Verne

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Julia Quinn

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

Kemmons Wilson

The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

Kevin Rose

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Mark Twain

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Mark Twain

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Mark Twain

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

Marquis de Sade

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Nikki Giovanni

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

Nicki Minaj

Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...

Nicki Minaj

Defend my honor - Protect my pride

Nick Hornby

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Mark Twain

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

Mark Twain

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Muhammad Ali

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Pope Francis

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Leo Tolstoy

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Peter Kreeft

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Peter Kreeft

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

Peter Jackson

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

Phyllis McGinley

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Joseph J. Ellis

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Joss Whedon

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.