Standing Proud Quotes

#1. There is most certainly a good time to run, just as there is a bad time. When the nation has more to gain by your getting away and living than by your standing proud and dying, then you run.

Jonathan Renshaw

#2. I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this."

James Pearse Connelly

#3. I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

Kristen Stewart

#4. Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

Lauren Myracle

#5. Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?

Augusta Scattergood

#6. I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

Yoko Ono

#7. More than that, I liked being known, and for the first time in my life, I was known by another. I'm not saying I liked what she knew about me, not proud of the bits and pieces, but somehow she was standing inside my skin and yet I didn't experience shame at her reflection.

Charles Martin

#8. I'm proud of myself for standing my ground, though.

Elle Kennedy

#9. I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me

Marie Lu

#10. When you stand in the crowd,
you stand like the cloud-
baseless.
But when you stand out of the crowd,
you're 'out-standing' like the proud -
limitless.
Stand out to be 'out-standing

Emmanuel Aghado

#11. The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

Jean Carroll

#12. I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

George W. Bush

#13. I do wear wigs ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

Dolly Parton

#14. Is it crazy that I'm proud of her for standing up to me at the same time that I'm pissed at her?

Nyrae Dawn

#15. And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

Nicole Kidman

#16. If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.

Ted Cruz

#17. . . . that tense expectation, that proud state of standing alone without
teachings and without teachers, that supple willingness to listen to the
divine voice in his own heart, had slowly become a memory. . .

Hermann Hesse

#18. I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.

George Foreman

#19. Was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Elisa Albert

#20. If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.

Ted Cruz