Proud Quotes - Page 31

• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

  Ronald Reagan

  Past, America, Legacy

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• Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

  William James

  Men, May, Wealth

  William James (2012). “Memories and Studies”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

  William James

  Example, Human Nature, Extremes

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.595, Simon and Schuster

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• When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sports, Tired, Night

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• Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Ignorance, Achievement, Intellectual

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ignorance, Errors, Guarantees

  "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Post-war American National Security Policy". Book by John Lewis Gaddis, 1982.

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• To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Path, Obstacles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very proud of my faith. So, it's not so much (being embarrassed by it). It's just it is really personal. It's not one of those things I'm willing to compromise. I don't have to bounce it off other people. I'm not willing to take judgment on what I believe - and I would hate to not live up to it. That's just not fair.

  Ted McGinley

  Hate, Believe, People

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

  Nick Goepper

  Sports, Team, Athlete

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Children, Darkness, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I wasn't on the board of Lehman Brothers. I was a banker, and I was proud of it and I traveled the country and learned how people make jobs.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Brother, Jobs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections.
  Cause this is the only life I have.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  Humility, Perfect, Causes

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• I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

  Ian McLeod

  Years, Males, Roles

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• Faith is huge and I am a proud Christian. I think it would be difficult to have a career like the one we have without having faith.

  Austin Dillon

  Christian, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

  Marc Martel

  Media, People, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

  Tom Hollander

  Thinking, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Color, Years

  Letter to Eckermann, December 30, 1823.

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• I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Airplane, Army

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Book by James Lundquist, 1971.

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• We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

  Billy Graham

  Pride, Race, People

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• I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

  Dolly Parton

  Dog, People, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Headlines can be strengthend by the inclusion of emotional words like darling, love, fear, proud, friend and baby.

  David Ogilvy

  Baby, Emotional, Fear Of Love

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

  L. Frank Baum

  War, Fall, Hands

  Saturday Pioneer editorial, December 20, 1890.

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• I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too. Just hope when you get to that great racetrack in the sky, that the balance will tip slightly into those things that you'd be proud of.

  Paul Newman

  Taken, Sky, Balance

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• I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Character, Leaving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10033, Delphi Classics

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