“The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Egotism is not a sign of self-esteem. It masks feelings of inferiority, which is why these Mr. Bigs denigrate others and often… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Harold S. Geneen Copy Share Image
“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself,… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. Hatred… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most… — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
