(71 quotes found)
“Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.”
John McCain
“Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon”
Rose Henniker Heaton
“Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up”
John Ruskin
“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”
Max Beerbohm
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”
Channing Pollock
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves”
Willa Sibert Cather
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
Oscar Wilde
“The eyes which look upon corruption do not know the Love and the Fear of God. Conquering self-conceit, one obtains the Name.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
Louisa May Alcott
