Egotism Quotes · Page 9

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

— Randy Newman

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

— Gore Vidal

You can't make the best of yourself if you're trying to get the best of someone else.

— Anonymous

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

— Joe Walsh

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

— Bob Dylan

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

— Mother Teresa

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

— Robert Frost

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The…

— William Hazlitt

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

— Edwin Balmer

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Your ego is a scary beast. It should have its own name. We could call it something frightening like Darth Yummy.”

— Nichole Chase

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…

— Karen Armstrong

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth…

— Jetta Carleton

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my…

— Peter Gabriel

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable." [ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and…

— John F. Kennedy

“One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism. It’s impossible to explain what you…

— Fredrik Backman

“Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,…

— Carl Jung

“I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow…

— James Russell Lowell

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for…

— Francois Hollande

“The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind…

— John Derbyshire

“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!”

— Harry S. Truman

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

— Blaise Pascal

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

— Swami Vivekananda

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

— Jonny Kim

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

— Anonymous

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself.

— T.F. Hodge

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

— Madonna Ciccone

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

— Frank Leahy

“Art of Racing in the Rain--Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”

— Garth Stein

“Your ego should never equal more than one-half of your accomplishments.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

Egoist is someone who cares more for himself than me.

— Julian Tuwim

“The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.”

— Abbe Smith

If pride and ego is not tamed by humility, it has the tendencies to destroy our personality!!

— Kemmy Nola

Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

— Big Daddy Kane