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I've always been a proud man. -- Herve Villechaize
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. -- Jules Verne
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. -- William Hazlitt
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
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God. -- C. J. Mahaney
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times. -- Bear Grylls
The proud man is forsaken of God. -- Plato
The proud man hath no God; the envious -- Joseph Hall
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man. -- Ed Gillespie
...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. -- Donald Miller
Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are. -- Eminem
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job. -- Ethel Mumford
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? -- Laurence J. Peter
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. -- Henry Ford
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. -- Publilius Syrus
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility. -- C. S. Lewis
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity. -- Mark Twain
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. -- Alexander Smith
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew. -- Irving Paul Lazar
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. -- Woodrow Wilson
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. -- Sir Fulke Greville
I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. -- Sir John Davies
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud? -- Richard Baxter
Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. -- Aeschylus
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there. -- Ed Parker
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it. -- Mark Twain
Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace. -- Matthew Henry
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine. -- Michael Heseltine
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know. -- Alexander Pope
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud. -- Martial
Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films) -- Tom Six
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. -- William Hazlitt
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. -- John Dryden
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. -- Michel de Montaigne
I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do. -- Abdul Sattar Edhi
I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them. -- Louis MacNeice
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball. -- Eddie Murray
A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud. -- Stanislaw Lem
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. -- Socrates
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. -- Simone Weil
The brotherhood of man is the only fraternity that's proud to rush anyone, but most never get past the hazing stage." -- Bauvard
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior. -- Thomas a Kempis
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. -- Confucius
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. -- Jane Austen
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for. -- Hans Selye
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. -- Aldous Huxley
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. -- Ezra Taft Benson
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man. -- Ray Romano
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble. -- Hannah More
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At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid -- Annette Messager
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. -- Common
What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail. -- Jonny Wilkinson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. -- Samuel Johnson
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled. -- Marguerite de Navarre
I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did. -- Keith Ellison
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. -- J. B. Priestley
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil. -- Honore de Balzac
What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too. -- Michael Finley
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. -- Martin Amis
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own. -- Farhan Akhtar
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. -- William Shakespeare
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell. -- Anthony de Mello
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless. -- Thomas Merton
I'm an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that? -- John Barrowman
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. -- Demosthenes
Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life." -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm amazed to form part of this amazing universe and I'm proud of the hunger that keeps me awake. Because when man is full he falls asleep. -- Facundo Cabral
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man. -- Catherine Ashton
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like. -- Will Rogers
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. -- Baruch Spinoza
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. -- Ernest Legouve
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault. -- Eric Cantona
He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it. -- Patricia Cori
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. -- Roger Zelazny
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. -- Henry Fairfield Osborn
I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it. -- Condoleezza Rice
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. -- Donald Miller
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence. -- Neil Fox
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. -- C. S. Lewis
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. -- Anthony Trollope
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason. -- Thomas Merton
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep. -- William Shakespeare

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