Conceit Quote by Margaret Deland Download Open image “conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.” — Margaret Deland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Devil Horse Reformers Self importance
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply. — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them. — Gabriel Heatter Copy Share Image
The horse can just be a great vehicle for some people to overcome things in their life that they might not be able to… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses… — John Denver Copy Share Image
My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
On a horse there is a perfect position of balance where he doesn’t feel like he’s pushing you along with him or dragging you… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. — Margaret Deland 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