Egotism Quotes

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

— Swami Vivekananda

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

— Victor Hugo

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

— Edie Brickell

“The ego is the ultimate conspirator.”

— Bert McCoy

“The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.”

— T.F. Hodge

I'm the greatest in this world.

— Ringo Starr

The ego is a fascinating monster.

— Alanis Morissette

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

— Nick Nolte

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

— William Strunk, Jr

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

— Erich Fromm

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

— Guru Gobind Singh

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

— William James

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Camille Paglia

If we choose to connect with humility, life may turn upside down at first, but starts to smooth out. If we don't…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential…

— John Edwards

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,…

— Mother Teresa

Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,…

— William V. Shannon

Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you…

— Thaddeus Golas

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --…

— Albert Einstein

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind…

— Ramakrishna

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…

— William Hazlitt

“I've spent my entire life trying to find those who could guide me and help me. I then wrote books based on…

— Robin Sacredfire

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality…

— Kenny Smith

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is…

— Honore de Balzac

“To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and…

— Suzy Kassem

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it…

— Charles Horton Cooley