Egotism Quotes · Page 7

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

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

— Swami Vivekananda

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

— Hank Williams, Jr

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

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

— Camille Paglia

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it…

— Charlotte Bronte

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned; as, on…

— Lord Chesterfield

“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

I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism,…

— John Rhys-Davies

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

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse…

— Frederick Lenz

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

— Albert Einstein

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

The ego is a puzzle. It is something like darkness which you can see, which you can feel, which can obstruct your…

— Osho

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity…

— Frederick Lenz

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed…

— Suzy Kassem

Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you…

— Swami Vivekananda

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and…

— Karen Armstrong

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

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

— Mother Teresa

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

— Harry S. Truman

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

— Frank Leahy

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

— Anonymous

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

— Madonna Ciccone

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Kemmy Nola

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

— Abbe Smith

“What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.”

— Dada Bhagwan

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

— Ato Boldon

If your aim at success is to show anyone else up then you already lost.

— Anonymous

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

— Anonymous

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

— H. L. Mencken

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

— Taylor Swift

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

— Hermann Hesse