Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

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.

You never can stay enough humbled.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

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.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

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

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

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

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.