Proud Quotes

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Selfish, Laugh

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Him, Place

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Strong, Humble, Enough

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald Reagan

Remember, Free, Prepared

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Flowers, Assertion

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Gay, Fact, Started

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Woman, Kept

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates

Until, Wealth, Known

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mind, Humble, Pride

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trust, Respect, Fear

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

Morning, America, American

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

Long, Two, American

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Person, May, Words

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell

Stupidity, Patient

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama

Simple, Hear, Issues

We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
Michelle Obama

Change, Time, Moving

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Successful, Wife, Behind

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

Black, Pride, American

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
Brian Molko

Yourself, Wrong, Imitation

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

Fact, Weapons, Invented

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Grateful, Thinks, Seldom

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Tell, Shall

Earn the right to be proud and confident.
John Wooden

Confident, Earn

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence

Life, God, Mistakes

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko

Care, Dead, Alive

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles

Love, God, Strength

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Grateful, Honor

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