Top 100 Be Proud Quotes
#1. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.
Orson Scott Card
#2. You ought to write a real book, Rix. You know, something that could really happen. That horror shit is junk. Why don't you write a book you'd be proud to sign your real name to?
Robert McCammon
#3. You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.
Sarah Benson
#4. Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too arrogant about the virtues that we cannot help having. It
G.K. Chesterton
#5. One cannot wonder that so very fine a
young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should
think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has
a right to be proud.
Jane Austen
#6. Celtic is a community institution the supporters are entitled to be proud of.
Fergus McCann
#7. That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.
Doug Jones
#8. We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.
Howard Dean
#9. Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?
Richard Sibbes
#10. IT'S NOT RACIST
TO BE PROUD
OF YOUR COUNTRY!'
no, but it is fucking
stupid
to think it makes
you a better man.
Andy Carrington
#11. You should be proud of the pleasure you give to others' eyes.
BadSquirrel
#12. We should be proud of liberating the 26 million people in Iraq and should remember that this is why it is important to stick it out to it's successful conclusion.
Evan Bayh
#13. Stand up there tomorrow morning and be proud of your humiliation.
Jen Calonita
#15. I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.
Nicki Minaj
#16. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.
Immortal Technique
#17. Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don't seem to know the value and,therefore, don't take pride in their tradition, unlike Westerners who take a lot of pride in theirs, even if there is little to be proud of
Maria Wirth
#18. Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
Rajneesh
#19. It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.
Penelope Cruz
#20. For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.
Rashers Tierney
#21. I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.
Emma Watson
#22. 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
#23. But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
Larry Dixon
#24. Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us ... She had an ear for talent ... the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of ...
John Densmore
#25. I wanted to do something for the minority Muslims living in the West, especially in the UK, to bring up their morale a bit. They need to be proud of their religion
Sami Yusuf
#26. A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
Anne Perry
#27. I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.
Will Packer
#28. I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.
Aida Turturro
#29. We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?
Matt Damon
#30. Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
Michael D. Higgins
#31. I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
Douglas Sirk
#32. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.
Tammy Bruce
#33. The best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of.
Robyn Carr
#34. i hope you can find it in your heart to be proud of the woman i have become in spite of you. - still hoping for sugar instead of salt.
Amanda Lovelace
#35. Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
Tori Amos
#36. Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Adi Shankara
#37. As Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You must be proud of your enemy; then your enemy's successes are also your successes."87 Be proud of your competitors. Just don't follow them.
Eric Schmidt
#38. Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Christian Bale
#39. When you do something good, the Argentine people really attach themselves to you. They have so many problems back there that they're looking for somebody to be proud of. I think about that, and I won't forget it.
Manu Ginobili
#40. I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.
Kid Rock
#41. Then they just get it with their minds, intellectually, because if they got it with their hearts and souls, they would change, they would change and rejoin the animal kingdom and once again be proud to be called animals.
David Duchovny
#42. At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
Steve Almond
#43. The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
Sarah Dessen
#44. So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#45. Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.
Jonathan Demme
#46. The screams failed to spread, as the strong hugged the weak and comforted them. That was something to be proud of, in the last moments of the old humanity.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#47. As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#48. My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.
Mike Nichols
#49. I asked Stu Hart earlier. I said, 'Stu, you gotta be proud of your boys.' He said, 'I have boys?'
Bobby Heenan
#50. 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
#51. Both males took a deep breath. And then Wrath put his hand on top of Xcor's head, as if in benediction. Looking up, the King sought Layla out with his blind eyes. "You should be proud of your male. This is no small thing for a warrior." She brushed at her eyes. "Yes." Wrath
J.R. Ward
#52. To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right,
Andrej Pejic
#53. Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood ... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Indira Gandhi
#54. They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.
John Flavel
#55. We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.
Marla Gibbs
#56. We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.
Christine Gregoire
#57. My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.
Cass Sunstein
#58. The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
Christina Aguilera
#59. There's only one thing that regularly keeps me up at night. Working with the greatest people in the world and knowing that they are counting on me to build a company that endures - a company where they can grow professionally. A company where they can build world-class products and be proud to work.
David Ulevitch
#60. Asha grasped many of her own contradictions, among them that you could be proud of having spared your offspring hardship while also resenting them for having been spared.
Katherine Boo
#61. The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.
Albert J. Nock
#62. Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.
Duncan Bannatyne
#63. If you say "I don't read" like it's something to be proud of, punch yourself in the face repeatedly.
Donald Bell
#64. Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
Catherynne M Valente
#65. Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
William Shakespeare
#66. Don't aspire to be the next somebody else. Be proud and embrace being the first and only you!
Tammy Ferebee
#67. I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
Carla Bruni
#68. Yes, she was proud of her body, and no one could criticise her for that: even if she were seventy years old, she would still be proud of her body, because it was through her body that the soul could do its work
Paulo Coelho
#69. You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and puts up with your demands. Someone who dedicates his life to keeping you safe and well fed. Someone who can make you happy. Someone you can be proud of. Raffe
Susan Ee
#70. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At
Seth Grahame-Smith
#71. The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#73. Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.
Beyonce Knowles
#74. I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
Erin Gruwell
#75. You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.
Robert Pattinson
#76. Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!
Phil McGraw
#77. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
#80. It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.
Leo Steinberg
#81. We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#82. Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
Lincoln Chafee
#83. I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that ... particular ... place.
Christopher Paolini
#84. 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
#85. Keep your head held high and always be proud of your accomplishments.
Liberty Parker
#86. Never allow anyone to make you feel inferior. Be proud of who you are!
Sheila Renee Parker
#87. I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.
Jake Bugg
#88. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.
Dean Hughes
#89. 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
#90. I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.
Big Sean
#91. Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
Eric Shanteau
#92. We [Latinos] must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society.
Patricia Velasquez
#93. Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.
Joseph Chamberlain
#94. I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Carroll O'Connor
#95. Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
Jeff Bezos
#96. Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#97. If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
Laurence Sterne
#98. Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.
Monica Bellucci
#99. I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
Nicolas Cage
#100. It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.
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