Joyce Meyer Quotes

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

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

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

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

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

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

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

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

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

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

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

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.

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

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

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.

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.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.