Quotes About Self-importance

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Ako bi samo ose?aj taštine bio dovoljan za kanonizaciju, kakav bih tek svetac bio! Na vrhu hijerarhije svetaca!

Pobre del escritor que no cultive su megalomanía, que la vea menguar sin reaccionar. Pronto se dará cuenta de que uno no se vuelve normal impunemente.

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?

This chatterer believed himself an orator.

Thwarted passion and mortified vanity are great babblers.

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

To be conceited of doing one's duty is, then, a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it.

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.

I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.

Year 2020 was special. After everything that we went through, including the fact that my family battled COVID19, I believe that we are a tiny part of this large universe. Every second we spend here is precious, and so we must live in the moment and enjoy it. We should stop thinking we're too important.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

Sometimes she's so stuck up she'd drown in a rainstorm.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology

la vanità cerca l'applauso degli altri per costruirci sopra un'alta opinione di sé, è presupposto della superbia che quella esista fin da principio

Ihmiselle ylittämätöntä on hänen turhamaisuutensa tyydyttäminen. Mikään vamma ei koske häneen niin kuin turhamaisuutensa kokema kolaus.

It did not take long here to realize that some had come just to be seen