Famous Quotes & Sayings

James A. Michener

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

James A. Garfield

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Jackie Tabick

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Christopher Hitchens

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

Gary Ackerman

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Fulton J. Sheen

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

George Chapman

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

Christina Ricci

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

Chris Rock

I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

Chris Noth

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Chris Murray

You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.

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.

Ford Frick

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

George W. Romney

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

George Washington

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Franz Grillparzer

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Jim Carrey

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Jemima Kirke

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

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.

Gary Numan

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

George R. R. Martin

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Garth Ennis

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

Frederick Buechner

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Fay Weldon

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Ezra Taft Benson

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.