Samuel Johnson Quotes

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

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

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

One may be humble out of pride.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

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.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.