Proud Quotes - Page 6

• Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

  George Farquhar

  Courage, War, Spring

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.485

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• I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.

  Emily Carr

  Self, People, Feelings

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• Finally, I have lived the dream. I am extremely proud to have worn the armband and been captain of England and for that I will always be grateful.

  David Beckham

  Dream, Grateful, Captains

  "Terry in line as Beckham hands in his armband" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2006.

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• I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Honesty, Thinking, Years

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

  Janine Turner

  Texas, Ballet, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.

  Joss Whedon

  Regret, Firefly, Animal

  "Can a failed TV show spawn a successful film?". www.today.com. September 27, 2005.

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• There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hate, Hard Work, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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• What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Pride, People, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

  Ricky Gervais

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• And there is London!--England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world.

  Robert Montgomery

  Heart, Greatness, Land

  Robert Montgomery (1836). “Selections from the Poetical Works: With Introductory Remarks, and an Appendix Containing Extracts from Satires, Notes, &c”, p.125

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• This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

  Edgar Winter

  Believe, Rocks, Guitar

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• Anytime I think about a product, I think about my family and friends.  Would they be proud of me if I put this out?

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Thinking, Family And Friends, My Family

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• I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

  Sir John Davies

  Men, Wretched, Knows

  'Nosce Teipsum' st. 45

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• Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Hands, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Stories, World

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• 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.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Tree, Giants, Splinters

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  Orson Scott Card

  Humble, Men, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Sky, Walking

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• A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Singing, Want

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.155, Routledge

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• From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Feet, Crowns, Bolsheviks

  "The Day of the People" by Eugene V. Debs in "The Class Struggle", Volume III, No. 1 (February 1919); later quoted in "International Socialist Review", Volume 29, No. 2 (pp. 55-57), www.marxists.org. March/April 1968.

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Beer, Fancy

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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• I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

  William Saroyan

  Wise, Stupid, Humble

  "The William Saroyan Reader". Book by William Saroyan, "The Beggars", 1958.

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• Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that! And the nearly six years! O God, I thank you for those years. If I never had met you, I would now not have all the sorrow; but I would have missed these riches -- and do these years not abundantly balance the lonely years I face without you?

  Diet Eman

  Lonely, Crazy, Thinking

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