Self-importance Quotes
56 quotes by 54 authors
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a…
— Watchman Nee
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
— Paulo Freire
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling…
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
— Christopher West
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Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.
— John Agard
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I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
— Jim Harrison
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In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which…
— Auberon Waugh
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Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
— Willem Buiter
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If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself…
— Thomas a Kempis
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
— Whitfield Diffie
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Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize…
— Theophan the Recluse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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