Quotes About Egotism

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn't for you - that Trump is about Trump.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens could make his novels and his fortune. At least a bank manager's money is not so tainted by egotism. Mine was not a destructive profession. A bank manager doesn't leave a trail of the martyred behind him.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else, an absolute ignorance.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

He is enjoying the situation . . . I can tell. I know his type. Too handsome for his own good. Thinks that he is the answer to every woman's prayer. Thinks he has only to crook a finger to make a woman come running. Thinks he can make me flush and simper and flutter my eyelashes merely by raising that eyebrow. There should be a law that gentlemen can raise only both eyebrows together or none at all. There really should.

to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.

What is described in Scripture as the basic sin, the sin of taking things into your own hands, being your own god, grabbing what is there while you can get it, is now described as basic wisdom: improve yourself by whatever means you are able; get ahead regardless of the price, take care of me first.

Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit - unless George Burns is there - and then I have a ball.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

The "peace which comes from selflessness," Karen Armstrong explains, "is a condition that those of us who are still enmeshed in the cravings of egotism . . . cannot imagine.

Egotism is not a sign of self-esteem. It masks feelings of inferiority, which is why these Mr. Bigs denigrate others and often have unquenchable ambition.

To me, egotists seem bloated, flatulent. They watch out for number one, peer down their noses at you, and tend to be jealous or envious. (Still, egotists usually have varying capacities for empathy and love compared to narcissists, who're typically more incapacitated in these areas.)

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.