Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Blair

The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.

Rick McCallum

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Richard Trumka

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

Thomas More

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas Chatterton

It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

Thomas Browne

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

Rumi

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Tom Ford

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Tom Ford

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

Tom Ford

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

Tom Ford

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

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.

Robert Burns

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.

Richard Steele

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Richard Armitage

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

T. S. Eliot

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Sylvester Stallone

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

Umberto Eco

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Troy Polamalu

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Rick Warren

If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.

Veronica Roth

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Veronica Roth

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Vince Lombardi

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Rebecca Solnit

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Steve Kanaly

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

Sri Aurobindo

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

Sophia Loren

If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

Roger Miller

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

W. S. Gilbert

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

W. H. Auden

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.