Conceit Quote by Bion of Borysthenes Download Open image “Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.” — Bion of Borysthenes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Enemy Enemy of progress Growth Identity Progress Self
The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else. — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Progress can’t be achieved without investing in and constantly improving yourself.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
Introspecting self is a mission, whose aim is to stay planted in reality. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she,… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common." — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked. — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
