82 Quotes About Conceit

Katika maisha, kila mtu ni kiongozi na ni mfuasi pia kutegemeana na hali. Kiongozi hatakiwi kuwa na kiburi, wala hatakiwi kuwa na roho yenye kutakabari, roho ya jeuri na kuona wengine si kitu, kwa sababu kiburi na roho yenye kutakabari huleta maangamizi na maanguko makubwa katika jamii. Viongozi wa mataifa wana jukumu kubwa kwa sababu kama wataruhusu maadili yaanguke, nguvu zao zote za kijeshi na kiteknolojia hazitawasaidia. Sifa ya kwanza ya kiongozi ni kuwa na maadili mema.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Simple is humble; complicated is conceited!

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Harry Stickles certainly did possess quite a number of peculiarities which would have been nerve-racking to any less well-constituted girl. These nasty little ways were made worse by the man's preposterous and incredible conceit. But Nancy had been given by Nature one supreme gift—wherein only one other person in Glastonbury rivalled her, and that was John Crow—the gift of forgetting.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.