Proud Sayings and Quotes

While you may not see it, every day you’re making progress. It’s the little behaviors and changes in habit that have the biggest impact. Pat yourself on the back with the collection of proud quotes below.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. John Green
A proud and faithful person wants to be seen with you. If your man isn't taking you around their normal hangouts, then there could be something going on within the city limits. Maxwell Billieon
Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money. Dov Davidoff
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall
Then shun, Oh! shun that wretched state / And all the fawning shatters hate: / value yourself and men despise / You must be proud if you'll be wise. Francis Pharcellus Church
But transient is the smile of fate / A little rule, a little sway / A sunbeam in a winter's day / Is all the proud and mighty have / Between the cradle and the grave. John Dyer
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
Every one that is proud in the heart is an abomination. He shall not be unpunished. Proverbs 16:5
But the entertain he can guarantee involves much hard word, listening to feedback and is also a way to make sure he makes his family proud of his work, something very important to him. Mobile Library
If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look. Japanese Proverbs
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground. Spanish Proverb
Likeness begets love yet proud men hate one another. Thomas Fuller
A proud man is a fool in fermentation that swells and boils over like a porridge-pot. He sets out his feathers like an owl, to swell and seem bigger than he is. Butler
If a man has a right to be proud of anything--it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. Sterne
Rather than bear the pain of thought, fools stray; The proud will rather lose than ask their way. Churchill
So did this horse excel a common one / In shape, in courage, color, pace, and bone / What a horse should have he did not lack / Save a proud rider on so proud a back. William Shakespeare
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. He who is proud of his country will be particularly cautious not to do anything which is calculated to disgrace it. George Borrow
I am very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen
He is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom--one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats
There is not in the universe amore ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. Henry Fielding
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Shy and proud men...are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. Sir Henry Taylor
I think it comes down to pride in the end. Not proud, necessarily , that you're better than everybody else, but that you are tougher than anybody else. That if you lose, you're going to make whomever you are running against pay. Alberto Salazar
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Jane Austen
Some day you will look back at your struggling days and feel proud of what you have achieved. Avijeet Das
There will be always some extraordinary people in our lives with whom we are proud to be living in the same époque with them! Mehmet Murat ildan
If you're different, be proud / And say it out loud / If we were all the same / life would be a boring game. Newart
I am proud to be what I am, and humble to accept what I am not. A.S. Joseph Charles
Money makes a person significant and important , it has the ability to make us proud Sunday Adelaja
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. Henry Ford