Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mark Victor Hansen

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

Mark Batterson

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

Mike Colter

We pride ourselves on all being unique shows.

Mithun Chakraborty

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

R. C. Sproul

Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

Publilius Syrus

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Oscar Levant

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Oliver Goldsmith

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Oliver Goldsmith

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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.

Mark Twain

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

Paul Gleason

If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.

Paul Giamatti

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

Patrick Rothfuss

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

Patrick Rothfuss

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

Patrick Rothfuss

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Patrick Rothfuss

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Lea Salonga

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

Larry Wall

A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Irvin Kershner

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

Huston Smith

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

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.

Kevin Rose

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

Michael Douglas

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.