Proud Quotes - Page 18

• One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Idols, Worship

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• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Character, Pride

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Names, Noble, Inheritance

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• Come near; I would, before my time to go,
  Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
  Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Rose, Red, Way

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
  Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
  And that is why their lovers are afraid
  To tell them a plain story.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet how proud we are,
  In daring to look down upon ourselves!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Looks, Daring

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.399

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• You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Fall, Sloth

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humble, Men, People

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• A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

  Henry Ford

  Pride, Men, Given

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• It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
  That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
  The mind that knows it is destroyed by time.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Mind, Silent

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.339, Vintage

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• The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Order, Religion

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• If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

  Colin Powell

  Black, Problem, Hispanic

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• It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Satisfaction, Pleasure, Astonishing

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• The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

  Henry Fairlie

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Falling In Love, Wife

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Latin

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Numbers, Mathematics

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• Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Sick, Mental Illness

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dream, Freedom, Taken

  Gerald R. Ford's Address at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 31, 1976.

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• People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

  Jenna Bush

  Father, People, Effort

  "Bush twins help dad with spread in Vogue" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2004.

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• I'm
  gonna spread out
  over America
  intrude
  my proud blackness
  all
  over the place.

  Mari Evans

  America, Spread, Blackness

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Stupid, Pride, Would Be

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Doe, Littles

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• ...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

  Audra McDonald

  Wisdom, Health, Reality

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