Kenneth Clark Quotes

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Pride leaves no room for grace.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

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

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 intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

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

I don't choose to be humble.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.