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I learned I had to stand for something so I could stand to be me.
Martin Sheenborn 1940Progressive magazine interview (2003)
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed.
Barbra Streisandborn 1942Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper: Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
- Pride
I was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Interview with Pierre Salinger, June 22, 1982
- Acting
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Conor McGregorborn 1988UFC 178 post-event press conference (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Pride
You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obamaborn 1964Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (25 July 2016)
- Advice
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Religion
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Change
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Love
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIn context
- Charity
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIn context
- Pride