“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”

— Robert Burton , book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 14, Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, etc., Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

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Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

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“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“I am proud to be an Ethiopian. I am proud to be a part of that history.”

Meles Zenawi (1955–2012) Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia

Meles speaking to American intellectuals about Ethiopia and its history, as quoted in Harold G. Marcus, "A Breakfast Meeting with Prime Minister Meles", Michigan State University. 20 October, 1995.

“BNP Member: I am proud to be white, and I am proud to be British.
Brand: But you should find other things to be proud of mate.”

Russell Brand (1975) British comedian, actor, and author

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RE:Brand (2002)

“All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.”

Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States

"The Big Town" (p.283)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”

Gene Wolfe book Starwater Strains

"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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“Till the wilderness cried aloud,
A secret between you two,
Between the proud and the proud.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Against Unworthy Praise http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1433/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: p>O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause
Being for a woman's sake.
Enough if the work has seemed,
So did she your strength renew,
A dream that a lion had dreamed
Till the wilderness cried aloud,
A secret between you two,
Between the proud and the proud.What, still you would have their praise!
But here's a haughtier text,
The labyrinth of her days
That her own strangeness perplexed;
And how what her dreaming gave
Earned slander, ingratitude,
From self-same dolt and knave;
Aye, and worse wrong than these.
Yet she, singing upon her road,
Half lion, half child, is at peace.</p

“And now, the American people, proud of our country, proud of our freedom, proud of ourselves, will reject the San Francisco Democrats and send Ronald Reagan back to the White House.”

Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006) American diplomat and Presidential advisor

1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Full transcript http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/san.diego/facts/GOP.speeches.past/84.kirkpatrick.shtml

“Be inspired but not proud.”

B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar

Source: Light on Life

“They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.”

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