Brian Aldiss Quotes

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I have got my pride to defend.

I am not stupid. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone.

If you're confident in what you do, the compliment doesn't matter.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

I never think I have to prove something.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

I still am champion in my own right.