Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Young

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Christopher Moore

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

Anne Bronte

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

Angelina Jolie

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

Anthony de Mello

A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

Andrew Solomon

Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

Ameen Rihani

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

Andy Murray

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

Ambrose Bierce

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

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.

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.

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.

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 Wilson

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

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.

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.

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.

David Stern

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.