Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

C. S. Lewis

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Bette Davis

I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.

Arrigo Sacchi

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Bill Vaughan

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Becki Newton

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

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

Frank Beamer

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

Aldo Leopold

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

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.

Angus Wilson

All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

Dwight Freeney

I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

Corazon Aquino

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

Derrek Lee

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

Anthony Perkins

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

Anthony Mackie

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Alexander Pope

Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Douglas Alexander

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Dale Carnegie

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Andrea Dworkin

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Allen West

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Aesop

Pride goes before destruction.

Adoniram Judson

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

Aleister Crowley

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

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.