Max Lucado Quotes

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

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

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

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

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

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

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

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

Personal vanity has no place in a World Cup.

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.

Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

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.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.