E. M. Forster Quotes

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.