Virginia Woolf Quotes

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The world calls me conceited. The world is in error. I trace all the blunders of my life to sacrificing my own party to that of others.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

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

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

It is important to remember yourself.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.