Jackie Gleason Quotes

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

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

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.