Adam Cole Quotes

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Small things make base men proud.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.