A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain 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
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
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And the higher and purer the original object, and the more unselfishly it may have been taken up, the slighter is the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen 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
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel 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
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
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
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
“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry” — Victor Hugo 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
“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
An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other… — Joseph Fort Newton 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
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. Hatred… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself,… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Harold S. Geneen 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
![“The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as…” quote by Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/swami-vivekananda-53_body_the-mind-in-its-foolishness-thinks-that_340144.jpg)
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