Conceit Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Humility is the worst form of conceit.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Form Humility Worst
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
