Metta World Peace Quotes

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

I have been vain since birth.

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

I'm vain.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I have a lot of vanity.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.