Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Og Mandino

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Emile M. Cioran

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

Emile M. Cioran

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

Ellen Malcolm

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

Ellen G. White

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Emily Giffin

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

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.

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.

Jimmie Johnson

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Erik Larson

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

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.

Ayn Rand

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

Ayn Rand

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Roger Milla

Don?t just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

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

They've got a lot of pride in their running game. We've got a lot of pride in our running game.

They take pride in the way their school looks. There is no graffiti.

They take a lot of pride in being the Patriots, and we take a lot of pride in being the Crusaders.