Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

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

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

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

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

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