Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. — Johnny Unitas
Conceit is God's gift to little men. — Bruce Barton
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take… — Mark Twain
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have… — Joseph Altuzarra
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness… — Louisa May Alcott
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. — Alexandre Dumas
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. — Johnny Unitas
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. — Channing Pollock
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be… — Andrew Lo
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little… — Steven Erikson
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers — George Bernard Shaw
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda
Justice is often rendered impotence by the art of falsehood, conceit and sophistry perfected by lawyers and politicians. — Babloo
Walk not on the earth with conceit and arrogance. Verily, you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth, nor can you attain a stature like… — QURAN
Loving yourself and being in love with yourself are two entirely different things. Differentiate. — Andrew Cervantes
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself,… — John McCain
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,… — Willa Sibert Cather
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be… — John Wooden

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