So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
“States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.” — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for… — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
“It takes just as much energy and delusional self-aggrandizement to maintain the belief that one has insurmountable problems as that one has… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Most people correctly identify a person like Jimmy as a raging narcissistic ass-hat. That’s because he’s pretty blatant in his delusionally high… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Because incentives trigger a primitive, engrained response, they produce a number of unintended consequences. First, they strongly reinforce self-aggrandizement, so much so… — Carol Sanford Copy Share Image
![“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in…” quote by Ben H. Winters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ea/ben-h-winters-14454_activist_here-in-america-we-have-a-man-donald-tru_946555.jpg)
