Proud Quotes

We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.

~ Dolly Wells

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

~ Lisa Leslie

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

~ Zayn Malik

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

~ Walter Cronkite

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

~ Arthur Godfrey

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

~ Tippi Hedren

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

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

~ John Keats

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

~ John Lasseter

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

~ Alan Dershowitz

I've never liked my smile, you see. I should have had braces as a kid, but I was too proud and too vain. And I didn't want to be bullied at school.

~ Ricky Whittle

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

~ John Rowland

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

~ George Takei

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

~ Nick Saban

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

~ Erica Jong

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

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

~ Chen Ning Yang

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.

~ Lionel Messi

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

~ John Key

I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter.

~ Paris Jackson

Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.

~ Bindi Irwin

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

~ Marla Maples

I don't think I can boast about him. 'Hey, my dad is a British institution; he's done all these incredible things and I'm really proud of him.' There is a certain baggage that comes with that in England.

~ Rebecca Hall

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

~ Petra Stunt

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

~ Roh Moo-Hyun

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

~ Ice Cube