These proud quotes will inspire you. Proud, having great self-respect or dignity or feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one’s own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging proud quotes, proud sayings, and proud proverbs.
Best Proud Quotes
- “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.” ~ Wallace Stegner
- “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.” ~ Jane Austen
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“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride” ~ Karen Horney
- “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor but without folly.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” ~ Herbert Hoover
- “It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.” ~ Abigail Tarttelin , Self proud quotes
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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” ~ Lauren Bacall
- “Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”” ~ George Carlin
- “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “I hope you live a life you’re proud of…” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.” ~ Boris Pasternak
- “There is such a thing as 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
- “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
- “My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.” ~ John Waters , Proud quotes life
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“I am proud to be an emotionalist.” ~ James Joyce
- “Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.” ~ Imran Khan
- “Earn the right to be proud and confident.” ~ John Wooden
- “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ~ Emily Bronte
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“There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
- “Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.” ~ Michelle Obama
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“I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.” ~ Kurt Cobain
- “We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” ~ Bill Cosby
- “Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I’m Really Proud of My Country” ~ Michelle
- “He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.” ~ John Lennon
- “I am proud to be an American Citizen.” ~ Robert Purvis
- “If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.” ~ Stephen King
- “He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I am proud to be an African.” ~ Brenda Fassie
- “I’m proud to be a Democrat.” ~ Russ Feingold
- “I am proud to be an actor.” ~ Rod Taylor
- “Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I am very proud to be Italian.” ~ Madonna Ciccone
- “If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.” ~ Socrates
- “The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.” ~ Simone Weil
- “He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Be proud of who you are.” ~ Demi Lovato
- “My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “You just have to keep trying to do good work and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.” ~ Jon Stewart
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“We are rarely proud when we are alone.” ~ Voltaire
- “If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.” ~ Wil Wheaton
- “You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?” ~ Henry Wotton
- “I’m proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I’ve given every maid I’ve ever portrayed soul and heart.” ~ Lupe Ontiveros
- “And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Running on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard.” ~ Drake
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“Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bonds have no part in us” ~ Francis Hughes
- “I’ve enjoyed every age I’ve been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I’ve been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don’t want a “perfect” face and body; I want to wear the life I’ve lived.” ~ Pat Benatar
- “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
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“Be Young, Be Dope,
Be Proud.” ~ Lana Del Rey
- “When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of – onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul – love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.” ~ Brandon Bays
- “And I’m very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.” ~ Ken Blackwell
- “I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races – 16 in all. I’m proud that we won on a variety of tracks.” ~ Kurt Busch
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“Um, and I’m also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.” ~ Julie Benz
- “The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.” ~ Michael Bergin
- “Only comedians can talk about death, life, God, and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn’t allow myself. But with this accent, I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown – very much.” ~ Roberto Benigni
- “Sometimes we’re at hotels, and I’ll answer the phone. They’ll say, ‘Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.’ And I’m like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I’m proud either way – Ripa or Consuelos.” ~ Mark Consuelos
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“I’ve done a lot of things with theater that I’m very, very proud of.” ~ Dennis Christopher
- “And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment because somebody had told me I couldn’t do it and I never gave up on myself, the game, and my teammates.” ~ Brandi Chastain
- “There’s something about my Mexican-American heritage… I’m proud of it.” ~ Christian Camargo
