Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

William Faulkner

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

William Faulkner

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

William Faulkner

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Willem Dafoe

I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

Saint Francis de Sales

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Saint Augustine

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Saint Augustine

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Wes Walz

We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

Zubin Mehta

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Zach Braff

Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society.

Zhu Rongji

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy

William Hazlitt

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

William Hazlitt

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

William Hazlitt

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

William Hazlitt

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

William Hazlitt

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Wendell Berry

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows....

Wendell Berry

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Vladimir Nabokov

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Yoko Ono

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

Yann Martel

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Wyndham Lewis

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

Yelawolf

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

Zell Miller

A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.

Zadie Smith

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.