Arthur Helps Quotes

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

If you ever boast of a diplomatic achievement, you won't have another one.

Even if we achieve gigantic successes in our work, there is no reason whatsoever to feel conceited and arrogant. Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

People tend to think when you're at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

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've never been one of those guys who wants to put up titles and championships and run around and brag.

I didn't think every day, 'I'm world champion, I'm world champion,' not at all.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

I just don't like to talk about my personal success against somebody.