Dwight L. Moody Quotes

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

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

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I don't choose to be humble.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

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.

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.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?