Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

Marquis de Sade

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Nikki Giovanni

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

Nicki Minaj

Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...

Nicki Minaj

Defend my honor - Protect my pride

Nick Hornby

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Nathan Fillion

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

Kemmons Wilson

The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

Kate Clinton

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

Julian Assange

In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

That is the one that did it. It was all over pride.

Joe Thornton

It's something that reflects pride in their profession,

(Students) had to use the school colors, red and white, as much as possible, ... The project was not only to give the stadium a new look, but to show pride in their school.

Jay Wright

It was crazy. We're a pretty defensive-minded team. We take pride in that. We just couldn't stop them.

It was a wonderful, wonderful sense of pride for us to work there.

Tim Wakefield

I'm very comfortable with him. He's done a tremendous job. He takes a lot of pride in what he does.

Aaron Rowand

I'll wear it with pride, all the time.

John Selden

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

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.