Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I have a little bit of a big head.

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

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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 know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

A bit of arrogance is nice every now and then.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

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

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

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.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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