Own Importance Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

• No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come… — Bill Walsh
• Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to… — Joseph Priestley
• All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own… — Francois Truffaut
• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we… — Augustus Hare
• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and… — Jeffrey Kluger
• The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did… — Diane Setterfield
• It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to… — Richard Rohr
• We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we… — Neil Strauss
• One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand
• There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes,… — Stephen R. Donaldson
• Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she… — Rick Riordan
• Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate… — G. H. Hardy
• I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little… — Graham Greene

Who Wrote These Own Importance Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Own Importance Quotes as follows:

• 1 Own Importance Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Stephen R. Donaldson
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Own Importance Quote by G. H. Hardy
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Graham Greene
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Bill Walsh
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Joseph Priestley
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Francois Truffaut
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Augustus Hare
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Jeffrey Kluger
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Diane Setterfield
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Richard Rohr
• 1 Own Importance Quote by Neil Strauss