Henry Adams Quotes

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

I respect you, I fear you not; and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it.

One may be humble out of pride.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

There's no snobbery in me.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

I can only repeat, I would never compare myself to Gerd Muller.

I'd be pretty saddened to hear anyone say, 'Yeah, listen to this... God, I'm awesome, the way this all sits together,' about their own work.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

I'm not trying to steal anyone's shine.

The way I rap isn't about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.