Eric McCormack Quotes

People see us as no better than we are.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

With age, I've gained confidence.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

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

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.