Wendell Mayes Quotes

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

No reasonable man would think more highly of himself because he has office or power in this world; he is no more than a prisoner whom the chief gaoler has set over his fellow-prisoners, until the executioner's cart comes for him too.

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.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

Just when you are most desirous of being deemed great, innumerable little things are sure to happen which not only reduce you to your true dimensions but bring you below them

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.

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

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

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

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

I learned that you've never made it, you've never arrived, you're never too good, you're never above anybody else.

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

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

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.