Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.

Emile M. Cioran

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

Emile M. Cioran

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

Ellen Malcolm

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

Ellen G. White

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

Emily Bronte

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Giffin

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Herodotus

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

Heinrich Heine

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Henry Ward Beecher

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

Helen Fielding

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

Khalil Gibran

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Khalil Gibran

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Jonathan Swift

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Narendra Modi

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Narendra Modi

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Narendra Modi

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

Narendra Modi

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

Og Mandino

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

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.

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.

Manny Farber

Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.

Malcolm X

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

Mahatma Gandhi

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

John C. Maxwell

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.