Proud Quotes - Page 28

• Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Humble, Giving

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• I'm most proud of my family.

  Muhammad Ali

  My Family

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Party, Judging, Rewards

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• The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

  Kofi Annan

  Campaigns, Partners, United Nations

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• Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Civilization, Liberty, Flags

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

  Phil Roe

  Military, House, Needs

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• I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is a shrinking percentage of the American population. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a growing disconnect between our military and civilian population. At one time, we had participation from nearly every American. Victory gardens, metal collections, saving stamps and bonds-everyone did their part to support our military. We simply don't do that anymore.

  Don Young

  Military, Reality, Men

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• We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

  William Henry Willimon

  Blessed, People, Essentials

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• I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Country, Team, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."

  A. J. Jacobs

  Thinking, Community, Jehovah

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• There's nothing more exciting than to have a project that you like, that you're proud of, and you're waiting for that validation for the world to see it and say, "Yeah! You know what? That was pretty damn funny!"

  Will Packer

  Validation, Waiting, World

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

  John Isner

  Mean, Player, Tennis

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• Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?

  Louis Farrakhan

  College, Doctors, Government

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• When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?

  Molly Ivins

  Daughter, Boys, White

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• If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

  George Foreman

  Mother, Eye, Champion

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• Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Simple, Soul, Comfort

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• Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

  Ann Hasseltine Judson

  Men, Suffering, Needs

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• Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Christian, Religious, Unique

  "Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

  Van Cliburn

  Texas, Matter, Known

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• I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

  Sissy Spacek

  Texas, Facts, Bigs

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• All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.

  William James

  Army, Pride, Men

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1289, Library of America

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• One of the reasons I was so proud to be born on April 3, is because I am such a big fan of yours.

  Wayne Newton

  Fans, April, Reason

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• My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

  Sophia Loren

  Mother, World, Taught

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• Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.

  Sammy Nelson

  Winning, Boys, Squad

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• We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

  Pope Gregory I

  Humble, Men, Names

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