Self Conceit Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
— Aesop
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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
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: