Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

James Russell Lowell

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

James Russell Lowell

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

James Russell Lowell

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

James Purefoy

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

Laurence Sterne

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

LaMarcus Aldridge

I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

Lamar Odom

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

George Gillespie

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Jojo Moyes

Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

Johnny Otis

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Johnny Damon

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

Sherwood Anderson

Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two...

Sherry Argov

Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then what good is he? (Maggie) I ask myself every friggin’ day exactly what you did. What good am I? The answer is simple. There’s nothing good about me and I like it that way. Pride myself on it, in fact. (Savitar)

Nicolas Chamfort

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Nicolas Cage

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Nikola Tesla

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...

Nas

Respect all fear none my pride is everything

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Monique Coleman

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

John Ruskin

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Eric Hoffer

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Eric Hoffer

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Philip Johnson

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Paulo Coelho

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Matthew Scully

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.

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.