Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden American Coach More John Wooden Quotes 2
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. Alain Rene Lesage French More Alain Rene Lesage Quotes 0
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Alexandre Dumas Père French Writer More Alexandre Dumas Père Quotes 0
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. Francis Bacon Irish Artist More Francis Bacon Quotes 0
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. John Blake More John Blake Quotes 0
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit. John Unitas American Football Player More John Unitas Quotes 0
The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she had no conceit. She was completely modest. Jon Vickers More Jon Vickers Quotes 0
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 American Politician More John McCain Quotes 0
I became aware that I did not know as much about my musical trade as puerile conceit had led me to suppose. My dedication to practice did not burgeon fully until I came under the ponderous, yet benign, influence of my great master, Eugene Ysaye. William Primrose More William Primrose Quotes 0
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 American Author More Willa Sibert Cather Quotes 0
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Abraham Cahan Lithuanian Author More Abraham Cahan Quotes 0
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. Ellen Terry English Actress More Ellen Terry Quotes 0
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott American Novelist More Louisa May Alcott Quotes 0
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 American Novelist More Louisa May Alcott Quotes 0
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. Max Beerbohm English Actor More Max Beerbohm Quotes 0
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, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather American Author More Willa Cather Quotes 0
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes 0
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Alexandre Dumas French Dramatist More Alexandre Dumas Quotes 0
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Augustus Hare English Writer More Augustus Hare Quotes 0
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. Jerome K. Jerome English Author More Jerome K. Jerome Quotes 0
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said. James Laughlin American Poet More James Laughlin Quotes 0
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. Channing Pollock American Actor More Channing Pollock Quotes 0