Proud Quotes
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The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul but few designers and wage rates are astonishingly high - which is a problem when trying to support and promote Afghan craft exports. The community in Murad Khani in the old city - who we are helping to restore their area - have been the best part so far - eccentric, led by a champion wrestler, determined, proud and courageous.
Rory Stewart
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Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.
Eugene Walter
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I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.
Dawn Marie Psaltis
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I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
Tom Lehrer
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A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
George Eliot
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For my dad to say he's proud of me - in English - is a really big deal.
Mirai Nagasu
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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.
Ernest Hemingway
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I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.
Boti Bliss
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I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.
Ashley Wagner
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I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.
Joe Manchin
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I try not to behave badly in a way that can harm others. If so, I can be proud of myself and be confident.
Park Kyung
Block B
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It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The thing most worth doing in this modern world is to create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
Nevil Shute
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
Seneca the Younger
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Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.
Jonathan Swift
