Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

Ezra Taft Benson

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

Ezra Taft Benson

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Evelyn Ashford

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Francis Chan

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

Francine Pascal

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Francis Bacon

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Francesca Annis

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Frances Wright

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Erma Bombeck

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

Erin Hunter

You have sacrified so much. And our Clan walks a safer path now. With this life, I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. Thank you for raising Whitestorm. You were chosen long ago, and StarClan has never regretted its choice.

Florence King

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

George Eliot

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

George Eliot

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

George Eliot

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

George Eliot

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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.

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

Ron Gardenhire

It's not just about going out and bunting. It's about implanting things in their minds. This is what we have to do to win. You have to bunt. You have take pride in it. We want them to know we're very serious about this.

Cassandra Clare

He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will

Muriel Rukeyser

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

Greg Peterson

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Jean de la Bruyere

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

Jean Baudrillard

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

Jay London

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.