For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of…

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

— Noel Tichy

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Most people correctly identify a person like Jimmy as a raging narcissistic ass-hat. That’s because he’s pretty blatant in his delusionally high self-regard. What…

— Mark Manson

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they…

— Hill Harper

“I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.”

— J.Z. Colby

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion…

— Glen Cook

“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled…

— Joe Biden

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes…

— Heather Donahue

“States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to…

— Ben H. Winters

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Because incentives trigger a primitive, engrained response, they produce a number of unintended consequences. First, they strongly reinforce self-aggrandizement, so much so that people…

— Carol Sanford

“It takes just as much energy and delusional self-aggrandizement to maintain the belief that one has insurmountable problems as that one has no problems…

— Mark Manson

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was interested in…

— Jeffrey St. Clair