Vladimir Lenin Quotes

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

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

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'