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

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

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

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem if we do it well it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

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

Home is the most popular and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

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

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

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.