Quotes About Self-importance

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

Boys, men, she said. They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this thing is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

Another way to let go of the serious self-importance of the ego that stifles the easy flow of creativity is to spend some time helping other people.

Don Juan says that we fail to see the world as it is because our energy field gets locked in by our sense of self-importance, what some philosophies refer to as our ego.

Prayer that is regular confounds both self-importance and the wiles of the world. It is so easy for good people to confuse their own work with the work of creation. It is so easy to come to believe that what we do is so much more important than what we are. It is so easy to simply get too busy to grow.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen. Always

Oh, the enormous conceit of the man!

But all I know – the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself – these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

The club motto was To Toot One's Own Horn is Unattractive.

How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!

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You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else," he said, "but you ain't! I'm the one has it. Not you. Me." Haze didn't say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.