Joyce Meyer Quotes

Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you're irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you're always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

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.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

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.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.