Henry IV of England Quotes

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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

Egos turn me off, big time.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

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

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

We humans find it difficult to resist infection by hubris..

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

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 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.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Mastery passes often for egotism.