Henry B. Eyring Quotes

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

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

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

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.