King Hussein Quotes

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

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 like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

You never toot your own horn.

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

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.