Quotes About Being Yourself Pride

#1. I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I like to do film and theater. And I pride myself on that diversity of being a journeyman actor.

Wendell Pierce

#2. I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both.

Chris Rock

#3. Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.

Nina Easton

#4. In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It's not! If I'm the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

#5. The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill ... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.

George Carlin

#7. I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

Aleqa Hammond

#8. I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#9. Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#11. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. 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." "If

Jane Austen

#13. I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn't watch and would just walk around the top level of the stadium.

Alecko Eskandarian

#14. I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

Sara Bareilles

#15. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

David Binder

#16. Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

Tom Rath

#17. The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Anthony Liccione

#18. Carry your wounds with pride,
Believe in yourself;
amongst greatest of catastrophe'
You grew into the being you are
And I think that in itself,
is certainly enough.

Nikki Rowe

#19. hardly anyone knows what vainglory is anymore. If anything, people use the word "vain" or "vanity" today to mean being conceited or puffed up about yourself (usually in an unjustified way) - roughly speaking, it's a form of pride equivalent to having an inflated sense of your worth or importance.

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

#20. CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

Robin Meade

#21. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

#22. Don't think of what's being said, but of what's talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love? The goal of the hero's journey is yourself, finding yourself.

Joseph Campbell

#23. Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride

Elaine Barbieri

#24. Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care of
yourself? You bet. But a person who's willing to work and pay their own way
can at least take pride in that even if they can't take pride in anything else.

John Hawkins

#25. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.

Diriye Osman

#26. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#27. She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

Sarah Kane

#28. 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

#29. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Manasa Rao

#30. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

Tim Cook

#31. For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers. What

C.S. Lewis

#32. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

Robert Moment

#33. Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

J.C. Ryle

#34. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Paula Heller Garland

#35. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Larry Kramer

#36. Pride welled up inside me to think this brilliant ... being was mine.

Abbi Glines

#37. I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

Bill Simmons

#38. Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Paulo Coelho

#39. My mind reeling with the concept that a human being, a man, could feel pride over sodomizing another man,

Bret Easton Ellis

#40. I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

Dwyane Wade

#41. We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#42. So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Camryn Manheim

#43. Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#44. The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

Maggie Nelson

#45. A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.

Bette Lee Crosby

#46. 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

#47. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

#48. I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Roger Miller

#49. There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Samuel Richardson

#50. I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow.

Ayn Rand