Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Fred Brooks

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

Erica Jong

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Eoin Colfer

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Greg Giraldo

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

Ricky Davis

I don't know if it's self pride or whatever. We just need to toughen up a little bit.

J. D. Salinger

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Georges Bernanos

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

George Weinberg

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

John Piper

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

John Wesley

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

John Waters

What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

John Waters

Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Thorn

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

John Stott

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

John Stott

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

John Piper

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

John Piper

God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay for him to be in my family with my son's life. That's Love folks. That is mega off the charts love!!!

John Piper

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

Martin Luther

It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.

Mark Pagel

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Serge Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Michael Pollan

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Sholom Aleichem

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Tom Cruise

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

Solange Knowles

I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.

Mark Ruffalo

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

Ted Strickland

But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.