Pride In Myself Quotes

#1. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

Joe Louis

#2. I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

#3. I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

Lea Salonga

#4. In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Al Yankovic

#5. I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.

Stacy Keibler

#6. I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

James McAvoy

#7. In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

John Steinbeck

#8. While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Gregory Maguire

#9. I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

Martin Parr

#10. I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Richard Gough

#11. Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

Carl Hagelin

#12. If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Petrarch

#14. I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Ne-Yo

#15. I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.

Marilyn Nelson

#16. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.

N. T. Wright

#17. Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don't have a price tag.

Bear Grylls

#18. I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Jim Carrey

#19. It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

Francis Chan

#20. Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

Ariel Pink

#21. I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Benjamin Disraeli

#22. I think to myself that when you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance.

Emily Giffin

#23. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene H. Peterson

#24. I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.

Henry Cho

#26. I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

Neil Patrick Harris

#27. I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

Morrissey

#28. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.

Jana Deleon

#29. The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

Morrissey

#30. I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.

Maynard Webb

#31. The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

Oswald Chambers

#32. I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#33. I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. I wasn't in the habit of spewing out personal facts in a church setting. While I was here, I was bound and determined to keep it to myself. If no one was going to stand up and shout, "I'm straight," then I wasn't going to wave my Pride flag.

Wade Kelly

#35. Then what good is he? (Maggie)
I ask myself every friggin' day exactly what you did. What good am I? The answer is simple. There's nothing good about me and I like it that way. Pride myself on it, in fact. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.

Aimee Garcia

#37. If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

Lloyd Alexander

#38. I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.

Justin Cole

#39. And add at once: it is not in my pride that I pray for it, Lord, for I myself am more vile than all

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#40. I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

Anthony Pettis

#41. If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Jane Austen

#42. I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Dwayne Johnson

#43. His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#44. The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

Kate Bosworth

#45. I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics, and if that was said as Barney Stinson, it would mean a little different thing.

Neil Patrick Harris

#46. All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up.

Curtis Pride

#47. I take some pride in ... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

Robert Downey Jr.

#48. I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

#49. I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will be with a really pretty feminine blouse underneath.

Bridget Kelly

#50. I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

Simon Cowell

#51. But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

Webb Simpson

#52. I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too.

Ehab Atalla

#53. I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'

Rachel Tucker

#54. Not a day passes when the eagle of dark depression doesn't take flight in my soul, said Sunay, infusing his words with mysterious pride. But I cannot catch myself. So hold yourself in. All's well that ends well.

Orhan Pamuk

#55. I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

Ryan Kwanten