Washington Allston Quotes

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

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

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.