Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Goldman

If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

John Irving

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

John Henry Newman

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

John F. Kerry

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

John Donne

As soon as there was two there was pride.

John Carpenter

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.

John Calvin

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

John Calvin

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

Garry Kasparov

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

Francois Fenelon

As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.

George Crabbe

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.

Louise Rennison

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

Fred W. Friendly

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

Joe Louis

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

James McAvoy

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

Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Herodotus

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

Heinrich Heine

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Henry Ward Beecher

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

Helen Fielding

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

John Dryden

Pride - Lord of human kind

Joanna Baillie

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

This is about pride. This is about pride in your community, which is something we don't do a lot of in Yakima.