Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Terry Pratchett

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Thomas a Kempis

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

Thomas A. Edison

If there is a better solution... find it.

Neil Patrick Harris

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

Taylor Swift

But you held your pride like you should've held me

Swami Vivekananda

Say it with pride we are Hindus

Tom Rath

Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.

Tom Petty

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

Josh Billings

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike.

Karl Kraus

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Julie Walters

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Coffey

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

Paul Martin

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

Joe Louis

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

John Dryden

Pride - Lord of human kind

Phyllis McGinley

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.