Natsuki Takaya Quotes

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.