Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Stewart

Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Robert Lopez

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.

Sarah Kane

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

William Hazlitt

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

William Hazlitt

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

William Hazlitt

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

William Hazlitt

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

William Hazlitt

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Wendell Berry

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows....

Wendell Berry

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Vladimir Nabokov

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Yoko Ono

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

Yann Martel

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Wyndham Lewis

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

Yelawolf

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

Robert Greene

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

Rumi

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Tom Ford

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Tom Ford

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

Tom Ford

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

Tom Ford

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

Sri Aurobindo

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

Sophia Loren

If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

Roger Miller

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Zell Miller

A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

Zadie Smith

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.