Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

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

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

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

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

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

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

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

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

Clearly I've got an ego.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

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.