Top 100 Too Proud Sayings
#1. There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
P.D. James
#2. Great leaders are never too proud to learn.
John Donahoe
#3. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?
George R R Martin
#4. I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.
Jaye Murray
#5. I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud. I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits,
Gillian Flynn
#6. Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
Brennan Manning
#7. If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Abraham Cahan
#8. As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.
Charles Caleb Colton
#9. I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.
Kate Le Vann
#10. I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.
Scotty Bowman
#11. Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
Lynn Johnston
#13. Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people's intentions,
We don't listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.
Mouloud Benzadi
#14. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
#15. They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud - or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young.
Robin McKinley
#16. 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
#17. Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.
Rudyard Kipling
#18. I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.
Jillian Lauren
#19. I know people will say that it's because of the accident that I came back to church-well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than I am.
Sharon M. Draper
#20. 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
#21. I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
Alexander McQueen
#22. I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
Colonel Sanders
#23. Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.
John Grisham
#24. It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance.
J.M. Barrie
#25. A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.
Donald C. Peattie
#26. I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.
Charles A. Dana
#27. We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
Abraham Cowley
#29. Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
Robert H. Schuller
#30. There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
Joyce Meyer
#31. 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
#32. Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.
Ryan Graudin
#33. Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
Bill Kristol
#34. If you are too proud, you don't do business.
Marc Rich
#35. I have come to conclusion that there are two types of women, those who always take and never think of it, those who never take and are proud of it; and where do I fit in, well I would like to describe myself as too proud to say yes, but not stupid enough to say no.
P.E. Campbell
#36. I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.
Carice Van Houten
#37. This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish.
William Ritter
#38. I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me
Leo Tolstoy
#39. 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
#40. I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
Shirley Jackson
#41. I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.
Dave Bautista
#42. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.
T.A. Cline
#44. But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
Tahir Shah
#45. All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
Robert Frost
#46. Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Josh Billings
#47. There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. If you wanted him, it wouldn't be enough for me to let you go. I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If I can have that, nothing else matters. I'm not too proud to take what I can get.
Sylvia Day
#49. But Mom's shamelessness and weakness of will had led me to become the opposite: stubborn and proud. Too proud to ask for help, even when I needed it most. Especially when I needed it most.
Leah Raeder
#50. You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
Courtney Milan
#51. Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.
Jane Austen
#52. Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
Anthony Trollope
#53. I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.
Bobby Bowden
#54. We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
Mohnish Pabrai
#55. Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.
Wilhelm Grimm
#56. A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
Christopher Morley
#57. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat. These
John Steinbeck
#58. Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! - Romans 12:16
Gary Chapman
#60. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
Albert Wynn
#62. When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.
Sophia Amoruso
#63. You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
George R R Martin
#64. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.
Marianne Williamson
#65. Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job."
"Not proud, sir," said Runnel. "But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.
Orson Scott Card
#66. She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility."
Excerpt From: "Catherine, Called Birdy.
Karen Cushman
#67. They dance together in a line, murmuring in swift, low voices, smiling carefully as they are too proud to give away their beauty. They are light steppers with a gravity of sure grace.
Louise Erdrich
#68. You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.
Tarang Sinha
#69. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Thomas Gray
#70. But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available.
Terry Pratchett
#71. An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings ... than a lazy lounger ... too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.
Thomas Jefferson
#72. Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
Paul Bryant
#73. You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.
John Ruskin
#74. What's important is how you deal with fear. I face it head-on, but I'm not too proud to admit that I do get afraid sometimes.
Denzel Whitaker
#76. If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
Bill Hybels
#77. We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.
Ryan Reynolds
#78. I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
Shirley Temple
#80. You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful
James Terzian
#81. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran
#82. It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?
Diana Wynne Jones
#83. In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The
Jean Plaidy
#84. Strength wasn't about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
Karen Marie Moning
#85. My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.
Paul Lynde
#86. A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.
Patricia Hampl
#87. I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
Chet Faker
#88. 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
#90. My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.
Matt Passmore
#91. Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.
Charles Dickens
#92. The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.
Bruce Beutler
#93. Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
Sam Waterston
#94. Our cause is much greater. And now,with you on board, it won't be long before we rule the Middleworld, the Lowerworld, and ultimately the Upperworld too. My dad's really gonna be proud of me then. His eyes blaze at the idea,proving once again,he's a psychopath.
Alyson Noel
#95. There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
Tullian Tchividjian
#96. Kaitlyn is that kind of girl that might be too interesting, might tempt you to get involved ... A girl who challenged him, who could be my equal ... Her mind was a place of blue pools and blazing meteors ... She stood slim and proud as some medival witch princess against dawn.
-Gabriel
L.J.Smith
#97. You should tell your family every day that you love them. And make sure they know that you're proud of them too.
Will Schwalbe
#98. Yeah, he was a virgin, too, but he was proud of the fact he'd waited, that he was going to lose it right along with Lena.
Jenika Snow
#99. I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole
#100. The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
Frances Beinecke
