Quotes About Self-importance

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

Persoana mea se estompa pentru c? punctul meu de vedere începuse s? conteze.

Dad's "Theory of Arrogance"—that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway play.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...

In this situation, what we call natural ethics has nothing to offer but the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to think one is better than others. This is where ethics based on religion enters the scene with its promises of a better life hereafter. I am inclined to think that, for as long as virtue goes unrewarded here below, ethics will preach in vain.

Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.

The only crime is pride.

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important no matter your family background, political or social status and regardless of your of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important regardless of your level of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches/family background.

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.