Self Conceit Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a… — Watchman Nee
• The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. — Thomas Carlyle
• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be… — Jean-Georges Noverre
• Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification,… — Ezra Taft Benson
• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.… — John Dewey
• We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt
• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• [Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind… — C.S. Lewis
• Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Christopher Marlowe
• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis
• I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first… — Anne Bronte
• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us,… — Charles Kingsley
• What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn… — Epictetus
• Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers — George Bernard Shaw

Who Wrote These Self Conceit Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Self Conceit Quotes as follows:

• 3 Self Conceit Quotes by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Aesop
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Watchman Nee
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Jean-Georges Noverre
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Ezra Taft Benson
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by John Dewey
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Christopher Marlowe
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Anne Bronte
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Charles Kingsley
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by Epictetus
• 1 Self Conceit Quote by George Bernard Shaw