Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saadi

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

Rosa Parks

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Steve Kanaly

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

Peter Kreeft

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Peter Kreeft

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

Peter Jackson

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

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.

Shunryu Suzuki

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

L. Ron Hubbard

The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.

Laura Schlessinger

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

Laura Schlessinger

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.

Neil Peart

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

Neil Peart

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

Suzanne Collins

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

Sophocles

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

Sophocles

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

Stephen King

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

Stephen King

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Stephen King

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Sophie Swetchine

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

Sophie Swetchine

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Soren Kierkegaard

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual...

Soren Kierkegaard

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Marcus Aurelius

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

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

Robert A. Heinlein

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

Robert A. Heinlein

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey...

Tiffeny Milbrett

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.