Brigham Young Quotes

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

I always have a point to prove where I have a chip on my shoulder at all times.

I think I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, but I think that's good.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder, felt the need to prove myself.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I don't want to believe my own hype.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

I'm not great enough to be humble.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.