Conceited Quotes

• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Persons, Small Packages, Connecting

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Bullying, Mind

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• If you done it, it ain't bragging.

  Walt Whitman

  Done, Bragging, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

  Tom Clancy

  Ego, Mind, Fables

  Tom Clancy (1994). “Without Remorse”, p.254, Penguin

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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

  Nature, Self, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorance, Arrogance, Kind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

  Thomas Hood

  Wind, People, Whistling

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• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
  Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
  They are but beggars that can count their worth;
  But my true love is grown to such excess,
  I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Substance, Matter, Rich

  "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

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• I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Cocky, Self Worth

  "Will Ferrell: The King of Comedy Opens Up" By Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Genius, Modesty

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions

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• I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

  Neil Cavuto

  Hate, People, Literature

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• Conceit is God's gift to little men.

  Bruce Barton

  Athlete, Men, Ego

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• If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Long, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Success, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn, Melvin George Wiebe (1997). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856”, p.265, University of Toronto Press

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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Causes, Conversation, Wit

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• Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Conceit

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  A. J. McLean

  Feel Good, Sound, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

  Aesop

  Fear, Self, Ego

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Pelekanos Books

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• Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Nature, Improvement

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.44

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• Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

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• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Narcissism, Narcissist

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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