Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Southey

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

Suzanne Collins

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

Sophocles

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

Sophocles

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

Stephen King

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

Stephen King

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Stephen King

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Sophie Swetchine

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

Sophie Swetchine

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Thomas Merton

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Tony Evans

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Tommy Lee Jones

I look upon pride as a sin.

Tom Waits

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

Steve Blake

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

Stendhal

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Simon Cowell

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

Simon Cowell

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

Shepard Fairey

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Philip James Bailey

When pride thaws, look for floods.

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.

Pope Francis

... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

Ramakrishna

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Ralph Ellison

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

James McAvoy

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

James Madison

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.

James Madison

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Soren Kierkegaard

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual...

Soren Kierkegaard

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Stephen Colbert

It's hard to swallow your pride. That's why I slather mine in mayonnaise.

Stefan Zweig

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

Thomas B. Macaulay

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.