Top 404 Proud Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Proud Quotes from famous people such as Holly Madison, Evel Knievel, Gigi Gorgeous, Zoe Saldana, Robert Whittaker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I’d rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I’m proud of my body.
Holly Madison
I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I’m not proud of it. But I was always against society.
Evel Knievel
By using the digital platform YouTube, I have been able to build and grow my content-creating business and am proud to call myself a successful female entrepreneur.
Gigi Gorgeous
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood.
Zoe Saldana
I’m very proud of my heritage and the blood that runs through my veins. I take a lot of strength from that.
Robert Whittaker
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
All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they’re pretty good at that stuff. And I’m proud of them, but I don’t really keep up with it.
Willie Nelson
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
James Weldon Johnson
I’m very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.
Wayne Gretzky
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
Angela Rye
I’m fiercely proud to be Scottish.
Ewan McGregor
I just feel proud when they say in ‘Forbes’ magazine that the highest-paid athlete is a fighter.
Naseem Hamed
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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
I’m proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party.
John McCain
I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.
Cristiano Ronaldo
No: war material is life-saving for one’s own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.
Rory McIlroy
We were Londoners for about seven years during the decade they called the naughties. My first son, Finn, was born over there. He’s actually very proud of that fact.
Rhys Darby
Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.
Ben Affleck
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 realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
Nelson Mandela
I’m not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What’s wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
Johnny Weir
I never went to drama school, I don’t have any certificates saying: ‘He’s a qualified actor.’ But I did think that ‘House’ was something I didn’t have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of… whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.
Hugh Laurie
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
Gary Cooper
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
Lee H. Hamilton
I’m proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Eddie Murray
If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it’s everybody’s responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.
Megan Rapinoe
I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
Adam Elliott
It had never occurred to me that my colour – or lack of it – was an issue for some people, but then I moved to Sydney, and apparently it was. People look at me and don’t see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. Thankfully, my mother raised me well in knowing where I come from and who I am, and I’m proud of that.
Shari Sebbens
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift
Obviously, I was disappointed to lose the captaincy. I

Obviously, I was disappointed to lose the captaincy. I was very proud to be captain of my country.
Aaron Ramsey
I know that Cena has a lot of detractors, but I’m very proud of him. He’s a good hero.
Bret Hart
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.
Stephen King
All I know is that playing for Arsenal to me is always going to be an honour. I’m always proud to represent this club and wear the badge.
Alex Iwobi
Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.
Raquel Welch
I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home… I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
I’m really proud of a lot of the achievements we’ve made as a government but obviously I’ll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.
Gladys Berejiklian
You know, I don’t play the race card a lot. I’m half-black, half-white, and I’m proud of – my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn’t raise me as a black man. She didn’t raise me as a white guy.
Shemar Moore
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I’m very proud of my sobriety now.
Brad Goreski
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don’t differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I didn’t want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
B. B. King
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
Chris Burke
As an athlete, I’ve always been very proud to represent the United States.
Michelle Kwan
I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I’m proud of that record.
Rob Portman
I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.
Halima Aden
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.
Ezra Taft Benson
I’ve worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I’m proud to say that I’m one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
Joe Pantoliano
I could be anywhere in the country, and people will ask, ‘Are you from Jersey?’ I’m proud of that. We’re a weird breed.
AJ Lee
I’m very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That’s my greatest honor, and I couldn’t do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That’s very meaningful.
Robert H. Schuller
It’s not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.
Paul Walker
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
I’m very proud of my Southern accent, it’s part of me.
Leslie Jordan
I’m most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that’s something I want to do for the rest of my life.
Troye Sivan
I’m a proud family man.
Isaac Hanson
I know that I put a lot into ‘Hereditary’, and I’m proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience – and I hope it rewards that patience by the end – I know that I’m something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.
Ari Aster