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

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun.

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

The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she had no conceit. She was completely modest.