Saint Bernard Quotes

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

Men and nations cannot bear to feel inferior.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Vanity is but the surface.