“Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Egotism is not a sign of self-esteem. It masks feelings of inferiority, which is why these Mr. Bigs denigrate others and often… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
“The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most… — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
One thing leads to another. Self importance leads to self neglect. To think you're better than anyone else is the birth of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Life has taught me that if I want to rise, I have to get over myself. So EGO could be perceived as… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
