Ben Askren Quotes

I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

Egos turn me off, big time.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.