To Be Proud Quotes

I should have cause to be proud of this year's work;' and Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to when she was a girl, only then they were for herself, and now they were for other people, which is the reason perhaps that some of them came to pass in reality for charity is an excellent foundation to build anything upon.
- Louisa May Alcott

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
- Tori Amos

He came third in the state for woodwork,"
Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.
- Melina Marchetta

To tell you the truth, I'm amazed we've come this far, he said, and I agreed. We had hiked 500 miles, a million and a quarter steps, since setting off from Amicalola. We had grounds to be proud. We were real hikers now. We had shit in the woods and slept with bears. We had become, we would forever be, mountain men.
- Bill Bryson

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
- Benjamin Franklin

I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so.
- Samantha Young

But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant. People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
- Terry Pratchett

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
- Peter Davison

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.
- Howard Dean

Later up in my room, I kept thinking about this, the idea of distance and accomplishment. The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. In the end though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
- Sarah Dessen

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
- Sarah Dessen

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?
- Jude Deveraux

But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
- Larry Dixon

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
- Jean Dujardin

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

Earn the right to be proud and confident.
- John Wooden

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
- Viktor E Frankl

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.
- Stephen Fry

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.
- Stephen Mitchell

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
- Tom Hardy

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
- Jane Harman

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
- Michael D Higgins

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
- Karen Horney

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
- Criss Jami

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
- James Weldon Johnson

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.
- Tim Kaine

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.
- Tim Kaine

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
- Markus Zusak

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
- Bill Kristol

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
- Harper Lee

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
- Jeff Lindsay

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
- Gary Locke

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
- Edward Norton

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
- Carroll Oconnor

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
- Brad Pitt

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
- Dan Savage

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
- Douglas Sirk

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
- Jeremy Taylor

I don't know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the most powerful and tender natural attraction, but they pretend to be proud or indifferent and they don't consider, especially if they're young, that the sands of our life have been measured by God unto the last grain and that every carelessly wasted second of love sinks irreversibly into eternity.
- Angel Wagenstein

Pain is inevitable. Pride is lasting. Do something for humanity to be proud of.
- Joshua Wisenbaker