Ego Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ego Littles Men Modest Nuisance People Swank
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships. — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image