| "I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money." »Arthur Godfrey |
| "Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends" »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "We are rarely proud when we are alone." »Voltaire |
| "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." »Edith Sitwell |
| "It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not." »Albert Brooks |
| "Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to." »H. Mumford Jones |
| "This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror." »William Shakespeare |
| "You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life." »Hannah Nixon |
| "Too bad there's not such a thing as a GOLDEN skunk, because you'd probably be proud to be sprayed by one." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." »Andrew A. Rooney |
| "When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured." »English Proverb |
| "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner." »Douglas Adams |
| "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." »J. B. Priestley |
| "If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it." »Donald G. Smith |
| "This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on." »Oswald Spengler |
| "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 |
| "The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei |
| "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues." »Barack Obama |
| "You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." »Demosthenes |
| "Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole." »William Franklin Billy Graham |
| "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles |
| "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity." »Francis Maitland Balfour |
| "It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother." »Katherine D. Ortega |
| "At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time." »Woody Allen |
| "The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." »Bible |
| "The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves." »Jefferson Davis |
| "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me." »John Donne |
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