Proud Quotes - Page 20

• Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

  Abraham Cowley

  Country, Humble, Sleep

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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• Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

  John J. Pershing

  War, People, Battle

  Gen. John Joseph Pershing to Gen. Foch, Letter written from Office of the Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, in France. "Literary Digest History of World War," Volume V, p. 43, March 28, 1918.

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• If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

  Corra May Harris

  Family, Home, Expression

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• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Teacher, Religious, Party

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• Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

  Ana Monnar

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Order

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• Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.

  Helen Exley

  Thrill, Funny Business, Lost

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• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

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• Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

  James A. Garfield

  Sky, Circles, Shining

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• High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

  William Warburton

  Ancestry, Birth, Boast

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• A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

  Will Graham

  Death, Wisdom, Lying

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• It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Color, Lasts, Ships

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Book, Blessed

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• More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.

  Ralph Lauren

  Country, Rights, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ralph Lauren from Jun 27, 2015

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• [About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Mean, Marijuana

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• So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Struggle, People, Justice

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• I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, United States, I Believe

  CBS Radio Show "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1952.

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• A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

  Bruce Lee

  Pride, Men, Worry

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• you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

  George Orwell

  Life, Regret, Decision

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• All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Men, Differences

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• Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Complaining, Should

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• We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Merit, Blame, Prize

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• Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Silent, Force

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• I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Brother, Son

  "Jeb Bush's challenge: Family loyalty" by Maeve Reston, Alexandra Jaffe and Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.

  Rich Robinson

  Life, Music, Appreciation

  "Rich Robinson Announces The Black Crowes Have Broken Up". www.jambase.com. January 15, 2015.

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• The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.

  Joan Crawford

  Party, Class, Careers

  NBC Interview, 1961.

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