Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same..

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!