Be proud Quote by Melina Marchetta

“Best followed now is this life, by hurrying, like itself, to a close. Few things remain. He was repulsed in efforts after a pension…

— Herman Melville

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have…

— Fred Rogers

“Not even when everything was on top of him, not even when giving everyone what they needed from him at the factory and everyone…

— Philip Roth

Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he…

— Jon Gordon

“I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I…

— Sebastian Faulks

“He had many formal qualifications. He was rated expert on all small arms. He had won an inter-service thousand-yard rifle competition with a record…

— Lee Child

“He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he’d always been, might he ever hope to…

— Paul Russell

“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering as a…

— Ron Chernow

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray…

— Gavin MacLeod

“He was ever a strong man, which is almost the same, times, as to say a man with little time for kindness. For if…

— Mary Webb

“Now here he was: sartorially, facially and interpersonally sharpened; every inch the beatific boffin.”

— Sam Byers

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

— Jude Deveraux