Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ron Gardenhire

Right now, pride can go out the window. It's about winning. I've had his back for three years.

Mark Madsen

I questioned our pride in the first half.

Aaron Rowand

I'll wear it with pride, all the time.

Tim Wakefield

I'm very comfortable with him. He's done a tremendous job. He takes a lot of pride in what he does.

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.

Khalil Gibran

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Jonathan Swift

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Narendra Modi

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Narendra Modi

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Narendra Modi

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

Narendra Modi

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

Harvey Mackay

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

Louise J. Kaplan

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Genevieve Gorder

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

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.