Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Francis Schaeffer

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

Francis Schaeffer

It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it - and especially as we speak of it - that we can avoid the pride of that victory, which can be worse than the sin over which we claim to have had the victory.

Francis Quarles

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

Francis Quarles

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

Francis Quarles

Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.

Francis Quarles

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

Francis Quarles

See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.

Ian Hislop

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

Hugh Hefner

There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.

Grace Helbig

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

J. R. Martinez

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

H. P. Lovecraft

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic--the abnormally chromatic entity in "The Colour Out of Space" being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

Alexander Smith

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Aaron Levie

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

Adoniram Judson

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

Frank Beamer

We're winning with a lot of Virginia kids, and I take pride in that.

Cybill Shepherd

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

David Ogilvy

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Danny Boyle

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Daddy Yankee

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Billy Graham

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Dante Alighieri

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Dan Savage

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

Dwight Howard

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.