Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

We're going to do whatever we can to try to win games. So pride can go out the window.

C. J. Mahaney

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

C. J. Mahaney

Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive

C. J. Mahaney

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

Bernard de Mandeville

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Bernard de Mandeville

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

Bernard de Mandeville

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,

Cat Deeley

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Cass Sunstein

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Carolyn Wells

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Charles Manson

You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take that. You can kill the ego, you can kill the pride, you can kill the want, the desire of a human being. You can lock him in a cell and you can knock his teeth out and smash his brain, but you cannot kill the soul. You never could kill the soul. It's always there, the beginning and the end. You cannot stop it, it's bigger than me. I'm just looking into it and it frightens me sometimes.

Bob Schaffer

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Bob Riley

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Beth Moore

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Bernard Pivot

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

Bill Watterson

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

Benjamin Whichcote

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

William Shakespeare

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

Charley Pride

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

Charles Krauthammer

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Bliss Carman

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Simone Weil

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Jane Addams

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

Jane Addams

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

Jane Austen

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Jane Austen

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

Jane Austen

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.