Quotes About Self-importance

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a tendency to do that at some point in our career. So looking back on that, it's fun to laugh at it.

dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some dangerous indeed)…

Samoljublje kvari i najve?e genije.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

They should have focused more on me.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Now, I'm ridiculously attached to my head, seeing that it seems to go rather well with my shoulders.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. As soon as you let go of it, pride shrinks to the size of a fly, but one that has no head, and no tail, and no wings with which to lift itself off the ground.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

I look over at him too. For such a little man, he all puff up. Look like all he can do to stay in his chair.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,

And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

Perhaps that was all courage really was. Being so convinced of one's own importance one came to believe death was something only other people need worry about.

Vanity is of no value

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!