Ron DeSantis Quotes

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

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.

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

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

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.

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

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public …. A man must be his own trumpeter—he must write or dictate paragraphs of praise in the newspapers; he must dress, have a retinue and equipage; he must ostentatiously publish to the world his own writings with his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

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

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

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.

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.

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

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!