Quotes About Self-importance

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...

Why no. I'm too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light.

In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.

Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.

Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.

The rest were rubbish compared to me.

The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

Y en seguida, estornudé. -¿Tienes frío? -¡No! Estornudo por darme importancia.

This was the problem of being a narcissist: No one appreciated you as much as you knew you deserved." Louis Piper, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, The Morning Star.

The bigger we are, the harder we fall. Despite its hazards some keep on raising their narcissistic profile, wishing to be in the picture all the time, everywhere and at any cost. (Low profile)

Ignore him," Goldenflower advised. "He's so full of himself that he's got no room left for brains.

The only thing he thinks of is himself, Stoner pointed out. In his deepest heart he does not regard anyone else as truly human; no one except himself. He is the center of his world. Everything and everyone else revolves around him.

I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

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

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves;