Be Proud Quotes - Page 12

• I decided, when I started having kids, that I'd try not to do anything that I wouldn't be proud for them to see. I've kind of stuck with that, and I don't regret that at all, although I've lost money and passed up a lot of projects because of it. But I feel good about that.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Regret, Kids, Feel Good

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• Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Flower, Son

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.267, Bantam

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• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

  Stephen Fry

  Proud, Life Is, Ashamed

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• Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?" Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words. "Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to.

  Jana Oliver

  Hands, Asking, World

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.281, Macmillan

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• Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

  Laurence Sterne

  Silly, Simplicity, Would Be

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.467

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• To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.

  Andrej Pejic

  Equal Treatment, Identity, Proud

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• Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

  Wilkie Collins

  Vanity, Proud, Pedants

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• I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Looks, Proud, Littles

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• A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.

  Patricia Hampl

  Crush, Father, Historical

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

  Ashley Jensen

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

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• If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Pride, Men, Done

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.71

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• We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Mean, Men, Creative

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• The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.

  Jose Contreras

  Country, Government, People

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• Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

  Jean Reno

  Different, Proud, Nationalistic

  "Hollywood's favourite Frenchman" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Son, Men

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

  William Shenstone

  Pride, Men, Would Be

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• I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

  TobyMac

  Thinking, Proud, These Days

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• Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

  Athol Fugard

  Kids, Boys, Role Models

  "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• I talk about Africa and its meaning, being the birthplace of man and all that great history that's been erased and even hidden. I think it's my duty to be proud and to bring about the conversation that allows us to talk about the great history of my people.

  Nas

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Cultural Relativism, Proud

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• 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.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Giving, Tears

  Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33

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• I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

  Richard Branson

  Years, Evil, Proud

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

  Luqman

  People, Silence, Speech

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