John C. Maxwell Quotes

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

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

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

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

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

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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

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

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.