Quotes with proud

  • Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
  • There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
  • What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
  • I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.
  • Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
  • Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
  • Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
  • Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
  • Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
  • Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Adam Weishaupt I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Douglas Adams Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Robert Burns Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Thomas Gray Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Voltaire We are rarely proud when we are alone.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • C. S. Lewis A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bob Uecker Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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