Top 100 A Proud Man Quotes
#1. Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Charles Caleb Colton
#3. The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.
John C. Wright
#4. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
C.S. Lewis
#5. There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
Publilius Syrus
#6. A proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.
Tad Williams
#7. Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
Orson Scott Card
#8. And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.
Milan Kundera
#9. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves."1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift.
Max Lucado
#10. Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)
Tom Six
#11. Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
Hannah More
#12. The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
C.J. Mahaney
#13. A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#14. A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
Donald Miller
#15. On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
Thomas Merton
#16. A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
William Hazlitt
#19. I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
#20. A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
Mark Twain
#21. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Marguerite De Navarre
#22. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
#23. It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.
Jean De La Bruyere
#24. As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I'd attack ... to the right ... to the left ... And then - oh! - sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!
Arthur Rimbaud
#26. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.
Lord Chesterfield
#27. If a man says, "I have had such-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man," he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for "God hath respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#28. I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#29. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
#30. 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
#31. She was pretty all right, but he'd had prettier. She was proud and brave,too, but she was also outrageous and outspoken. And, yes, she had the body of a goddess, but she dressed it like a man. She entranced him, she irritated the hell out of him. She was forbidden fruit!
Charlotte McPherren
#32. Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.
Blaise Pascal
#33. He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through
and proud of it.
Patricia Cori
#34. I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.
Jonah Hill
#35. A man may be a Jew, a nobleman, a tramp, or a chimneysweep," Ossip said softly, "but as long as he is proud of his accomplishments, he will be honored to be called a man.
Monique Raphel High
#36. I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.
Common
#37. Everything should take place slowly and incorrectly so that man doesn't get a chance to start feeling proud, so that man is sad and perplexed.
Venedikt Erofeev
#38. If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
Hans Selye
#40. To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
Alexander Smith
#41. We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Jane Austen
#42. A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
Thomas A Kempis
#43. I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
Will Rogers
#44. I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#45. Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence.
Neil Fox
#46. He had a certain air of being a handsome man
which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man
which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
Charles Dickens
#47. Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
Farhan Akhtar
#48. A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
Ezra Taft Benson
#49. Marilyn is a kind of ultimate. She is uniquely feminine. Everything she does is different, strange, and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. She makes a man proud to be a man.
Clark Gable
#50. A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#51. Aw, I'm like a proud mother bird watching my daughter fly from the nest. Fly, little bird, fly. Oh no! Don't fall. No, that's the ground. Addie, watch out for the ground. Man, tough luck. You'd better come back home.
Kasie West
#52. 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
#53. I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Eddie Murray
#54. When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the
writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written
obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.
Epictetus
#55. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
#56. Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.
Richard Cecil
#57. I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.
John Boyega
#58. It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.
James Weldon Johnson
#59. He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.
Louisa May Alcott
#60. You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.
Shemar Moore
#61. [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
#62. There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;
but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing.
Anthony Trollope
#63. Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
Charles Sumner
#64. As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.
Runoko Rashidi
#65. It's about legacies. And the question-- how do you make a dead man proud?
Tom Taylor
#66. Well, well," said he, at last. "It is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. Take a bucket, fill it with water, Put your hand in - clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains Is a measure of how much you'll be missed ... . The moral of this quaint example: To do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember, There is no Indispensible Man!24
David Brooks
#68. I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
#69. What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
Michael Finley
#70. Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?
Leo Tolstoy
#71. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
#72. Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
#73. Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
Mark Twain
#74. For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. Suddenly a dog bayed in the wood, and the dancers stopped, and going up two by two, knelt down, and kissed the man's hands. As they did so, a little smile touched his proud lips, as a bird's wing touches the water and makes it laugh. But there was disdain in it.
Oscar Wilde
#76. He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.
Victor Hugo
#77. I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
Evangeline Lilly
#78. yeah, my dad was human. He was a good man, and I'm proud to be his daughter. My mother, on the other hand, was Firstborn. So unless you call the First of your race Mommy or Daddy, I think my breeding is better than yours." Verona
Seanan McGuire
#79. I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
Ed Gillespie
#80. The most important person to thank is ... my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.
Edward B. Lewis
#81. I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#82. One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers?
Marcus Aurelius
#83. The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.
Aristotle.
#84. When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
Eric Cantona
#85. In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin; he was proud of his wealth.
Ayn Rand
#86. I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. He's a 21-year-old kid trying to be a man and I love him. I really do
Manti Te'o
#87. You mean somethin' to me in a way, for a man, he wants the world to know it. I'm proud you're on my arm and in my bed and I want to share that with my family. Don't keep takin' that away from me.
Kristen Ashley
#88. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.
Robin Hobb
#89. What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.
Jonny Wilkinson
#90. This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.
Terry Goodkind
#91. [...]he's a man you'd be proud to bring home to mom.
Gay or straight.
Unfortunately, if your mother is anything like mine, you'd probably never get him back out of her house.
Adrienne Wilder
#92. It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza
#93. Syme strolled with her to a seat in the corner of the garden, and continued to pour out his opinions. For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely. He
G.K. Chesterton
#94. Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.
Vasily Grossman
#95. A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
C.S. Lewis
#96. I want you to know, this man - the man you are now - he is a man you can be proud of.
Jay Crownover
#97. A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States - Barack America!
Joe Biden
#98. I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me
Leo Tolstoy
#99. The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.
Christopher Lee
#100. This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
Amber Tamblyn
