Egotism Quotes · Page 6

“Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.”

— Zarina Bibi

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

— Guru Nanak

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

— Napoleon Hill

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

— Sam Cooke

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool

— Bellamy BrookS

“One always finds the answer to everything in one’s own egotism.”

— Anthony Powell

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

— J. Oswald Sanders

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism…

— Dada Bhagwan

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

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think…

— Mika

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be very disappointed that they are not…

— Rick Sutter

“There is no problem if there is ‘egoism’. But, it should be ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ egoism means that it does not hurt anyone.”

— Dada Bhagwan

My wife never gives up. She is so insistent that she entered the wrong password over and over again until she managed…

— Hussein Nishah

The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And the higher and purer the original object, and the more unselfishly it may have been taken up, the slighter is the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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

— Carl Jung

“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

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

— Erich Fromm

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

— William James

“Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.”

— Gary Hopkins

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

— Nelly

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People love to point fingers at each other and their egos to plead guilty too

— Diana Yan Manan

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

— George V. Higgins

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When you lose the ego battle, you win the battle of the Heart. You trade stress for peace of mind!!

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Ego is the most potent threat to relationship survival.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

— Rajneesh

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

— Epictetus

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

— Miles Franklin