Self-importance Quotes

56 Self-importance quotes by 54 unique authors

• 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
• But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me? — Ed Koch
• We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon… — Michel de Montaigne
• Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
• There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive. — Lee Iacocca
• 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
• It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events… — William Manchester
• 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
• Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow. — Matthew Arnold
• I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz

Who Wrote These Self-importance Quotes

54 authors contributed a total of 56 Self-importance Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Self-importance Quotes by Matthieu Ricard
• 2 Self-importance Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
• 1 Self-importance Quote by William Manchester
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Willem Buiter
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Whitfield Diffie
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Watchman Nee
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Vanna Bonta
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Thomas Szasz
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Thomas a Kempis
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Theophan the Recluse
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Swami Vivekananda
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Shantideva
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Sean O'Casey
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Pema Chodron
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Paulo Freire
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Mike Livingston
• 1 Self-importance Quote by Michel de Montaigne