Quotes About Having A Chip On Your Shoulder

#1. If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

John Piper

#2. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

#3. I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

Hope Solo

#4. It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Billy Rose

#5. I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

John Lennon

#6. Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

Chamillionaire

#7. Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chip Kidd

#8. Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

Gary Numan

#9. Well, at least I'm not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, 'stay-at-home-mom'-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

Julie James

#10. Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We're becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We're getting dressed up.

Alan Bissett

#11. I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way ... I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

John Waters

#12. At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Sid Waddell

#13. Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile.
Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

Christine Feehan

#14. We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

Bill Laimbeer

#15. It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.

Emily Blunt

#16. Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

John Paul Warren

#17. Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Eric Church

#19. That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

Malcolm X

#20. I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

Tracy Morgan

#21. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Hannah

#22. You try so hard to make something that's fun and exciting, then all anyone wants to talk about is how no-one likes you. It gets very grinding. I had to let the chip I have on my shoulder about that go.

Andy Biersack

#23. I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Erin Andrews

#24. Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

Yelawolf

#25. There is nothing more cruel in this world than a young savage with a chip on his shoulder and anger in his soul.

Robert McCammon

#26. Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Brigham Young

#27. Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

Sydney Schanberg

#28. It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

Doug Flutie

#29. I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.

Mindy Kaling

#30. The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

Simon Barnes