C. S. Lewis Quotes

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

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 think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

People should just get over themselves.

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

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

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

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.