Yousuf Karsh Quotes

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Every one thinks highly of his own

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

I should have more vanity.

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

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

I still think I am the greatest.

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

Vanity is not important to me.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

At the end of the day, I'm talented, and there's only one Lil Mama.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.