Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Johnson

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

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.

Mario Lemieux

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

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.

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.

Michelangelo

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

Michele Bachmann

This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda.

Mark Madsen

I questioned our pride in the first half.

Morgan Freeman

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Mara Wilson

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

Joseph Addison

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Joseph Addison

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Laurie R. King

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

Johnny Cash

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

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.

Harvey Mackay

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.