Henry Adams Quotes

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

I should have more vanity.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.

We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything.

I am not stupid. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone.

Nobody tells you that they don't believe in you. I had tremendous self-belief and faith in my sensibilities.

Insecure people don't stage comebacks, since they don't leave the scene.

Any time you get into that chip on the shoulder, trying to prove that I can do this and I can do that, it takes away from what you're capable of doing and who you are as a player, as well as a person.

The need to make sure everyone knows all of the great stuff about us is usually an insecurity in itself.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I don't think I'm as good as people say.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.