Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.