Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.

Robert Jordan

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

Robert Hunter

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Robert Southey

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Tom Hanks

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

Sallust

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

S. J. Perelman

I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

Ronald Reagan

We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.

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.

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

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.

Thomas Merton

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Tony Evans

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Tommy Lee Jones

I look upon pride as a sin.

Tom Waits

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

Steve Blake

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

Stendhal

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Simon Cowell

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

Simon Cowell

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

Shepard Fairey

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Scott Weiland

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

Rick Riordan

In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.

Swami Vivekananda

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Tite Kubo

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is like a blade

Tite Kubo

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life… and fights to defend pride…

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.

Tommy Bolt

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.