overestimation of oneself Quotes

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

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.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.