Muhammad Quotes

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

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

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

I didn't think every day, 'I'm world champion, I'm world champion,' not at all.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

A little humbling never hurt a great advocate.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

It's not good to have a huge ego.

It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.