Quotes About Self-importance

But then, the guy was a Feline. Effing cats always thought they were better than anyone else. Bastards. They washed their faces with their own spit, for crap's sake.

It's you that matters though, just you.

No es razonar con coherencia decir: «Soy más rico que tú, por lo tanto soy mejor que tú; soy más brillante que tú, entonces soy superior a ti». Para razonar más coherentemente es preciso decir: «Soy más rico que tú, pues mis bienes son mayores que los tuyos; soy más brillante que tú, pues mis discursos tienen mayor valor que los tuyos». Ya que tú no eres, ciertamente, ni riqueza, ni elocuación.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men, Epictetus replied, I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

hubris. It means extreme confidence or arrogance to the point that one loses touch with reality and overestimates one's abilities.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

There may be no more Sun Kings but there are still plenty of people who believe the sun revolves around them.

If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.