Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am read more

These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their read more

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.

For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?

For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Conceit is God's gift to little men