Conceit Quote by Hartman Rector, Jr

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

— Noel Coward

Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists,…

— Albert Ellis

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

— Albert Ellis

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

— Sinead O'Connor

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

— Gloria Steinem

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

Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something.

— Shari Lewis

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

— Bobby Darin

I don't think it's that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.

— Justine Musk

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the…

— Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

— Mason Cooley

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

— Stanley Greenspan