Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I can see his pride Peep through each part of him.

Ron Gardenhire

We're going to do whatever we can to try to win games. So pride can go out the window.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

Charley Pride

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

Charles Krauthammer

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Bliss Carman

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Bernie Mac

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

Edward Gibbon

On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

Edward Gibbon

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

Edward Gibbon

A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.

Edward Gibbon

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness. But when they lost even the semblance of those virtues which were derived from their ancient freedom, the simplicity of Roman manners was insensibly corrupted by the stately affectation of the courts of Asia.

Ed Case

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Edward Abbey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Aristotle

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

Aristotle

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Ben Jonson

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Elinor Glyn

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

She takes a lot of pride in what she does. And you don't necessarily see that in a lot of teenagers.

Beth Daniel

She was and is a symbol of pride for her country.

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are when they see the First Lady on magazine covers or when she is out doing her thing. There just this pride our community has had for eight years now. When that goes away, I jokingly said it, but I do think there's going to be a bit of withdrawal.

Elizabeth Barton

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Benjamin Franklin

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.