Quotes of Proud - somelinesforyou

“ Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. ”

- Bible

“ They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud. ”

- Robert Burton

“ I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ 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

“ If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. ”

- Maxwell Anderson

“ A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is — I could be just as proud for half the money. ”

- Arthur Godfrey

“ I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. ”

- Byron Dorgan

“ I'm not proud of everything I've done. I'm not proud of having a poor education. I'm not proud of being dyslexic. I'm not proud of being an alcoholic drug addict. I'm not proud of biting the head off a bat. I'm not proud of having attention deficit disorder… ”

- Ozzy Osbourne

“ I never think of what I am proud about. I never look back, except to find out about mistakes. Because mistakes are hard to remember and to draw conclusions from. But I only see danger in thinking back about things you are proud of. When people ask me if I am proud of something, I just shrug and hope to get away as soon as possible… ”

- Elisabeth Noelle Neumann

“ By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder — infinitely prouder — to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life… ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ This past weekend I was proud to take part in the commemoration of the World War II Memorial and salute the Greatest Generation. And I am proud to have the opportunity to honor and celebrate the service and sacrifices of Americans who took part in D-Day… ”

- Lane Evans

“ To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth. ”

- Unknown

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

- Socrates

“ Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ”

- H. Mumford Jones

“ To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. ”

- Sophocles

“ You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ”

- Demosthenes

“ This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Socrates

“ Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman. ”

- Col Erich ‘Bubi’ Hartmann

“ Maybe someday I'll be able to shoot a film I'm proud of. ”

- George Lucas

“ Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. ”

- John Donne

“ I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. ”

- Edith Sitwell

“ We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. ”

- Jane Austen
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