Best 1230 quotes in «proud quotes» category

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

The one thing I am most proud of myself is that I know how to keep my cool and not be intimidated - anyone can be beat.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

The people always support me. If they come to see my show, they never forget me. They are very proud of me.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And a huge facet of our psychic and existential make-ups is the things we're not proud of, things we didn't ask to experience, the scenarios we flubbed.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

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.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

The proud hate pride in others.

The proud man is forsaken of God.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

The Ranger who trained me at the time was [American] Major Buck Kernan, who became Supreme Allied Commander. I hadn't spoken to him in a few years, but he reached out to me and said, "I'm so proud of you.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

There is a choice, and it is a choice on life. I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who's standing for the right to life. It's a principle that that you embrace.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.

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.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

There's more to come. Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders] is coming soon. But I'm proud of making my hometown, which is considered to be completely unfashionable, slightly fashionable. People actually know where it is now.

There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

'The Social Network' was probably one of the two or three things I've done in my life that I'm most proud of. I'm not going to engage in what about it was disappointing. There's nothing about it I was disappointed in.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

They [muslims] are chopping off heads in Syria. Christianity is under siege. I'm Protestant, Presbyterian, and I'm proud of it. Other religions frankly are banding together, we need to band together.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.