Edward Young Quotes

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

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.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Honor is decency without vanity.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

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

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity.