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Proud Quotes (page 14)

There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise. Francis Bacon
Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors! Kurt Vonnegut
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. C. S. Lewis
Craig Ferguson quote: "I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are..."
I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love. Craig Ferguson
Steve Jobs quote: "I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."
I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do. Steve Jobs
Graham Greene quote: "She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet..."
She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled. Graham Greene
She'd done the first, the second and the third, when her father came in. He stopped in the doorway, held up a hand. "Wait, don't tell me. I know you. The face is very familiar." He narrowed his eyes as she rolled hers. "I'm sure I've seen you before, somewhere. Tibet? Mazetlan? At the dinner table a year or two ago."It hasn't been more than a week." She reached up as he bent to kiss her. "But I've mised you, too. I've been swamped here."So I've heard." He flipped open the magazine to her... Nora Roberts
Charles Dickens quote: "The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one..."
The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason. Charles Dickens
To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that... Friedrich Nietzsche
As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud to see the instant blood-lust pop into Gazzy’s blue eyes and to see little Angel automatically tense up and get into fighting stance, ready to rip someone’s head off. They were just so — so dang adorable, sometimes. James Patterson
Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride-pride at his own humility-will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt-and so on, for as many stages as you please. C. S. Lewis
So I told [the doctor] about my hay fever, which used to rage just in summertime but now simmers the year round, and he listened listlessly as though it were a cock and bull story; and we sat there for a few minutes and neither of us was interested in the other's nose, but after a while he poked a little swab up mine and made a smear on a glass slide and his assistant put it under the microscope and found two cells which delighted him and electrified the whole office, the cells being... E. B. White
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever. Philip Pullman
Kurt Cobain quote: "I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though..."
I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't Kurt Cobain
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift. John Piper

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