The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Your life is more important than anything. It is your God-given right to expect and receive happiness. — Nik Halik Copy Share Image
I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There's one thing that everybody wants to feel: to be loved, without seemingly begging for it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not worry if others do not understand you, worry only if you can not understand yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can call it selfish, but there comes a time in life where you have to put yourself above all and think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard Copy Share Image
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In his teachings, Kongtrül Rinpoche demonstrates with uncompromising clarity how the identification with a solid self and the resulting feeling of self-importance… — Dzigar Kongtrül III Copy Share Image
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Remember, Trying To Be Anyone Else Is A Waste Of The Person You Are. Embrace That Individual Inside You That Has Ideas,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Egolessness means that the fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. That… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Thought it has certainly taken you long enough to realize what should have truly been precious to you. Not your own self-importance,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
When you give someone a lot of importance in your life , you loose your importance in their life . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day. — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters can not be trusted in important affairs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I say goodbye and they say talk to you later. Only if they knew. Knew the impact they have had. But no… — Jade Copy Share Image
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes We Have To Run Away From The People We Love. Not Because We Want Them To Realize Our Worth, But For… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we learn and who we become in the process of waiting is even more important than what were waiting for. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody either its your friend or enemy has a particular importance in your life, the thing is you realize it when the… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Dont talk to me because you are bored. Im not here to entertain you. And dont come to me only when you… — Bubbles Copy Share Image