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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. — Henry Ward Beecher

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect. — Sweety Shinde

Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence. — George Eliot

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. — Benjamin Franklin

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61 — Abraham Verghese

Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular. — George Eliot

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. — Channing Pollock

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. — C.S. Lewis

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress. — Bion Of Borysthenes

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. — John Wooden

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. — Paul Hauck

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
— Christopher Marlowe

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner — Bangambiki Habyarimana

She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself! — P.L. Travers

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness. — Franz Grillparzer

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. — Hartman Rector Jr.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding. — Plato

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right. — Wilkie Collins

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. — Kellie Elmore

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. — Thomas Carlyle

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. — Wally Lamb

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit. — Criss Jami

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky! — Rick Riordan

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. — Adriana Trigiani

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford