Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I can’t talk about myself that way. Whatever I did before was just in line with my work. I can’t be saying I, I, I all the time.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

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

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

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

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

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

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

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.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

One may be humble out of pride.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

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

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.