Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

William Shakespeare

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

Bernard de Mandeville

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Bernard de Mandeville

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.

Bernard de Mandeville

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,

Cat Deeley

I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

Cass Sunstein

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Carolyn Wells

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Ron Gardenhire

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

Tim Wakefield

I'm very comfortable with him. He's done a tremendous job. He takes a lot of pride in what he does.

Arthur C. Brooks

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

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.

Mark Madsen

I questioned our pride in the first half.

J. D. Salinger

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.

Jack Kerouac

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Jack Kerouac

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness.

Isaac Watts

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Greg Giraldo

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

Ricky Davis

I don't know if it's self pride or whatever. We just need to toughen up a little bit.

Aaron Rowand

I'll wear it with pride, all the time.

They've got a lot of pride in their running game. We've got a lot of pride in our running game.

Roger Milla

Don?t just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Bernie Sanders

The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

I've always take a lot of pride in the scholar-athlete (concept).