Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

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• I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Childhood
  • Acting
  • Pride

• I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Pride

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Pride

• 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.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Honor

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Pride
  • Fact
  • Take

• The flip side of humiliation is pride.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Pride
  • Side
  • Humiliation

• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Pride
  • First
  • Sin

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Attention

• 'I cannot raise my worth too high;Of what vast consequence am I!''Not of the importance you suppose,'Replies a Flea upon his nose;'Be humble, learn thyself to scan;Know, pride was never made for man.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • High
  • Pride
  • Humble

• Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Pride

• Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Pride

• The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Good
  • Song
  • Party

• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Live
  • Death
  • Thoughts

• Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pride

• I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Pride
  • Games
  • Example

• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

  

  Saadi
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Kindness

• Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death were opened.

  

  King James I
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Work

• Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Pride
  • Block
  • Zion