Conceited Quotes

• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

  H. L. Mencken

  Reality, Effort, Deny

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• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Persons, Small Packages, Connecting

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Mind

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• If you done it, it ain't bragging.

  Walt Whitman

  Done, Bragging, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

  Tom Clancy

  Ego, Mind, Fables

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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• Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

  Thomas Traherne

  Encouraging, Love You, Love Is

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

  Aesop

  Fear, Self, Ego

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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• To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

  Thomas Hood

  Wind, People, Whistling

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• The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Arrogance, Kind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Self, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
  Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
  They are but beggars that can count their worth;
  But my true love is grown to such excess,
  I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Substance, Matter, Rich

  "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Genius, Modesty

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Respect, Men, Self

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Cocky, Self Worth

  "Will Ferrell: The King of Comedy Opens Up" By Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• Conceit is God's gift to little men.

  Bruce Barton

  Athlete, Men, Ego

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• He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

  Anthony Powell

  Love, Faith, Passion

  'The Acceptance World' (1955) ch. 1

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• If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

  Neil Cavuto

  Hate, People, Literature

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• I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

  David Lee Roth

  Faults, Conceit, Explanation

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• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  Kanye West

  Pain, Rapper, Jaw Dropping

  "Does Kanye West Believe He’s God?" by Smokey Fontaine, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Successful, Disease

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