Quotes About Self-importance

So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. There is no greatness there.

All Pennella ever did was brag about places he'd visited, money he spent, and people he met.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun! And

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun!

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. (Compare Crates on Xenocrates.)

La vanidad que se exalta bajo capa de modestia es la más insoportable de todas.

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

It's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement?

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

When Christ commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves, the 'self' part was just as important. We forget that at a terrible price.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

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

There's nothing more unattractive than a vain man