Austin O'Brien Quotes

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Everyone thinks I'm a nice guy, which is not a bad way to be perceived.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.