Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Parker

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Theodore Roosevelt

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

Theodor Adorno

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

The Weeknd

I'm too full to swallow my pride

Terry Pratchett

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

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.

Meg Cabot

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

Max Beerbohm

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Pablo Neruda

Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head.

Plato

The proud man is forsaken of God.

Laurie R. King

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

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.

John Ruskin

We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

John Ruskin

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

John Milton

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

Mitch Albom

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

Mark Twain

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

Mario Lemieux

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

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.

Mark Twain

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

Mark Twain

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Mark Twain

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.