Egotism Quotes

252 quotes by 200 authors

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse… — Karen Armstrong
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. — Thomas Carlyle
I always thought I should be treated like a star. — Madonna Ciccone
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. — Pope John Paul II
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde
The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride… — Charles B. Macdonald
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the… — William Hazlitt
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism. — Albert Einstein
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes… — Rajneesh
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... — Robertson Davies
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. — Penelope Keith
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy
Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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