Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James F. Cooper

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

Jacque Fresco

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

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.

Morgan Freeman

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Mara Wilson

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

Joseph Addison

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Joseph Addison

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Jorge Luis Borges

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Joni Mitchell

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Joni Mitchell

Sunlight will renew your pride.

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Laurie R. King

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Johnny Cash

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

John Selden

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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.

Thomas a Kempis

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Thomas A. Edison

If there is a better solution... find it.

Neil Patrick Harris

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

Taylor Swift

But you held your pride like you should've held me

Swami Vivekananda

Say it with pride we are Hindus

Paulo Coelho

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Matthew Scully

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.