Too Proud Quotes

Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.
- Jane Austen

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. 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.
- John Steinbeck

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

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
- Paul Bryant

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
- Abraham Cahan

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.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

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

You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
- George R R Martin

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

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
- Thomas Gray

He may have the Rockwell genes, but he has the Werner genitals! Adda boy, Mr. Werner said a little too proudly.
- Melisa M Hamling

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
- P D James

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

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

I have nowhere to go and no way to get there. But at least I'm not hitchhiking, because my thumbs are too proud.
- Jarod Kintz

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
- Sylvia Kristel

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
- Bill Kristol

I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.
- Jillian Lauren

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
- Alexander Mcqueen

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

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

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
- Jack Nicklaus

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

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

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

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

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