Don Marquis Quotes

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

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

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

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

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

I have a lot of vanity.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I don't think I'm a diva.

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

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.