Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

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

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

Every one thinks highly of his own

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

I think I'm one of the best. If you don't think that, then that's your opinion.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

'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.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

I don't think the world is jealous of me.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.