B. B. King Quotes

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

I've always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

I don't think of myself all the time.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.