Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Clearly I've got an ego.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.