“Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.” GivingShouldCountryTodayActionCommunityProudCapableConscienceInternationalNobleOur CountrySentimentsBe ProudDiplomacyDoing NothingInternational CommunityInvestigating Author:Alain Juppe
“I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].” FactsBlackCareersProudDirectAthleteNobleChiefsWarriorDescendantsHawks Author:Jim Thorpe
“All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.” WantAcceptingProudNobleIdolsFalsehoodBe ProudDominationUnwillingCzars Author:Honore de Balzac
“Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.” WantArtBodyLightCarePainSufferingCoursesForceEffortDangerDivineProudGeniusLowsWeaknessShiningBreatheNobleChecksTheeMelancholyNervesGuestsDoomImpatienceGloomTremblingDamp Book:Tales Source: Tales
“The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.” NamesProudNobleInheritanceDistinguished Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.” IfsMenSoulProudOfficeProfoundDareNobleCourageousAmbitiousNeglectedMeanness Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.” IfsWorldYearsMayTwoHomeRememberNamesWishFamilyRecordsMissingExpressionMaterialsProudPeriodsRelationFaultsForgottenCome UpCommittedNobleAppealsFollyFortyAssetsBe ProudBack HomeBrowsLaurelsProud Of YouFamily Name Author:Corra May Harris
“Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?” ShouldYearsMillionsSubjectsColorProudInvolvedTwentiesErrorsNobleDoctrineShould IMathematicianBe ProudNewtonCalculators Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.” GamesDevelopmentProudNobleDespiteCricket Author:Donald Bradman
“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.” IfsLooksScienceSpiritWishInterestPleasurePracticePathProudHolyCallingPureAnd LoveRewardsPrivilegeSpeedNobleProfessionPursuitIntenseImmortalHonourPeculiarWorldlyWish YouTruth And Love Author:Joseph Lister