Artist Quote by Kehinde Wiley

“It takes just as much energy and delusional self-aggrandizement to maintain the belief that one has insurmountable problems as that one has no problems…

— Mark Manson

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they…

— Hill Harper

“I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.”

— J.Z. Colby

“States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to…

— Jacques Ellul

“he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear—but the numbers emerged from an intricate origami of war bureaucracy: South…

— Mark Bowden

“Moreover, he objected, “I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don’t like to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

— Nat Hentoff

“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled…

— Joe Biden

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes…

— Heather Donahue

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to…

— Ben H. Winters

For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.

— Mary L. Trump

“Because incentives trigger a primitive, engrained response, they produce a number of unintended consequences. First, they strongly reinforce self-aggrandizement, so much so that people…

— Carol Sanford

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

— Noel Tichy