Self Importance Quotes

140 quotes by 117 authors

There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great… — Kate Bornstein
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity… — Chris Hedges
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. — Carl Sagan
You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility… — Mike Livingston
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a… — Deepak Chopra
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a… — Christopher Guest
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. — Jean Anouilh
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities,… — Sean O'Casey
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing?… — Shantideva
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast.… — Larry Kramer
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. — Kelly Miller
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see… — Lili Taylor
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are… — Luther Burbank
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. — Benjamin Franklin
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. — Al Goldstein
When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of… — Ethan Hawke

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