Quotes About Conceit

Entitlement is a double- edged sword (or a double-jawed trap) for kids. On one edge it gives kids all that they don't need—indulgence, dullness, conceit, and laziness; and on the backswing, it takes from them everything they do need—motivation, inde- pendence, inventiveness, pride, responsibility, and a chance to really work for things and to build their own sense of fulfill- ment and self-esteem.

What are you talking about? Narcissus demanded. I am amazing. Everyone knows this. Amazing at pure suck, Leo said. If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.

From prideful wisdom one falls into simple stupidity

So what do I get when I beat everyone?" I said. " When ?" Corey shook his head. "Do you need a wide-load sign for transporting that ego?

El único pecado es el orgullo.»

Bogge made bad decisions because he was playing some other game, making himself look good or trying to be superior or something

lot of them say it couldn't happen here, but they're wrong.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Small things make base men proud.

Like a strutting player, whose conceitLies in his hamstring, and doth think it richTo hear the wooden dialogue and sound'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage.

Failure has gone to his head.

Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Rien de tel que la médiocrité pour penser du bien de soi