Desmond Tutu Quotes

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.

I don't think I'm as good as people say.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.