Famous Quotes & Sayings

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

Adolf Hitler

In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

Adolf Hitler

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Alexander Smith

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Aaron Levie

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

Adoniram Judson

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

We still have pride in our game. We still want to win.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

Dwight Howard

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

William Shakespeare

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

David Ogilvy

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

Danny Boyle

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Daddy Yankee

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Dante Alighieri

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Dan Savage

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

Billy Graham

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Frank Beamer

We're winning with a lot of Virginia kids, and I take pride in that.

We do take the Big 5 seriously. We take a lot of pride in these games.

Alice Munro

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

Alice Hoffman

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Alice Hoffman

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Albert J. Nock

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.

Clint Hurdle

There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night. Sometimes your best stinks.

Danny Pino

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Daniel Defoe

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Alexander Pope

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Alexander Pope

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.