Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Clearly I've got an ego.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

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

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

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

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

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

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

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

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

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

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Every one thinks highly of his own

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.