Quotes About Self-importance

Pride is cold company

It was nice to live where you could show how capable you were. This was her own world and she was a person of importance in it. There was a joy in her heart the clock round.

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.

the greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day.

There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have turned out differently.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.

Remember that if you don't prioritize your life someone else will.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.

I simply don't think that putting every bit of energy I have into parenting-at the expense of my career, marriage and social life-will be the difference between Layla becoming homeless or the president. But too many women are made to believe that every tiny decision they make-from pacifiers to flash cards-will have a lasting impact on their child. It's a recipe for madness. It also reveals an overblown sense of self-importance.

It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves.

ALFRED ADLER (in Ansbacher, 1946, p. 358) "The supreme law [of life] is this: the sense of worth of the self shall not be allowed to be diminished.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

I believe you, why not?' she finally said. 'Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance. You are no exception. In spite of everything.

Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance.