Francis Quarles Quotes

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.