J. C. Ryle Quotes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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

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.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

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

I don't choose to be humble.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.