Quotes About Self-importance

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels. That is why so many actes gratuites are criminal: a man asserts his freedom by disobeying a law and retains a sense of self-importance because the law he has disobeyed is an important one. Much crime is magic, an attempt to make free with necessity.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.

There is one thing which no one will permit to be treated lightly—himself.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship—provided it is great enough—flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

Hey Internet. Look at the books I read. I sure do read a lot. Everyone should think I'm very intelligent and sophisticated. I'm glad there's a website I can constantly remind them with.

the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of not living up to the image of yourself that you want everyone to see is a source of tremendous anxiety. At

Taking one's self too seriously is a true display of a persons deep seated inadequacies.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

How bloated we all are to think that our childhoods matter, that anybody really cares about our little lives.

Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he ought to be President; he has no doubt whatever about that." These two unfortunate tendencies, Lincoln explained, had made Chase "irritable, uncomfortable, so that he is never perfectly happy unless he is thoroughly miserable.

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

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Zaphod glared at her again, then laughed.

Conceited little megapuppy.

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

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering." -Caroline to Ursual.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Guys as a gender have one giant collective delusion of grandeur.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.