Quotes About Self-importance

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

lo que se toma por inteligencia suele ser vanidad y tontería.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, that every one thinks he has a good reason for exalting himself and despising all others in comparison.

Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes

So infatuated are they by their own   splendor and magnificence, as to imagine that the whole world was made   only for them.

He would have considered it ironic that, the more men discovered the insignificance of their planet, the more highly they would rate themselves, all the more sure that they could explain everything without reference to God. They

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

Christ's humor is always redemptive, never mocking the individual. But He is sharp and sarcastic in His derision of those institutions such as Pharisaism, which posture in their self-made self-importance. Wisdom

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

As one can find expired, trash, low and cheap standard material at open markets easily; similarly, mostly fools, ignorant, frustrated, ill-minded, suffering from self-vanity, and such ones, can be available freely, on Wikipedia websites.

I'm too handsome for God to send me to hell. The rest of you are in for it, though.

I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size.

Buenos o malos, todos los hombres se creen que en cada una de sus empresas debes colocarlos en un altar cual san Jorge que mata al dragón.

Bons ou maus, todos os homens acham que, a cada ação deles, você deve colocá-los num altar como um são Jorge matando o dragão.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public largely shy; the foolish people overrate own importance & undervalue others intelligence, so often publicly lie.

A self-seeker may resist anything except the temptation of showing often own bigger face beside everything that s/he says as big thoughts.

Self-centred person is so mentally sick or disturbed that s/he gets often own photo entered into every poster and loves to be praised only for own face picture and means nothing with the words.

There is nothing so irritating as the man who is always coming in and informing all and sundry that he has repaired his sledge, or built a wall, or filled the cooker, or mended his socks.

m?na, which in Sanskrit refers to an inflated mind that disregards others in favor of the self