Quotes About Self-importance

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

People don't live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they're always concerned about what everybody else thinks.

Hollywood is built on delusion. Everyone thinks they're more important than they are. Nothing is real.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

Many research findings show that most Americans already hold inflated opinions of themselves.

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.

Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.