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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  Socrates

  Life, Money, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Be proud of who you are.

  Demi Lovato

  Bad Ass, Who You Are, Ass

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• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  William Shakespeare

  Pride, Glasses, Trumpets

  1602 Agamemnon.Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc.3, l.153-5.

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• 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

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.239

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• We are rarely proud when we are alone.

  Voltaire

  Pride

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• 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

  Funny, Uplifting, Memorial Day

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• 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

  Men, Action, Mark

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• 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

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

  Michel'le

  Country, Adults, Firsts

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• I am proud to be an American Citizen.

  Robert Purvis

  Citizens, Proud To Be An American, American Citizens

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• If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

  Stephen King

  Gross, Ifs

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Liars, Lying, Doe

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• I am proud to be an African.

  Brenda Fassie

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• I'm proud to be a Democrat.

  Russ Feingold

  Democrat

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• I am proud to be an actor.

  Rod Taylor

  Actors

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hands, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Careers, Trying, Looks

  Orange County Register, July 09, 1999.

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• 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

  Enough, Made, Okay

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• 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

  Spring, Years, Purple

  Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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• 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

  Country, Heart, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Different, Be Proud, Heads Up

  "Angelina Jolie Delivers Inspirational Speech to Misfit Kids Everywhere" By Nora Crotty, www.elle.com. March 29, 2015.

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• And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin 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

  Relationship, Smart, Humble

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• 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 bounds have no part in us

  Francis Hughes

  Military, Patriotic, Fighting

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• 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

  Life, Laughter, Perfect

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• 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

  Happy Life, Keys, Accomplishment

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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