Quotes About Self-importance

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

The difference between God and a US senator? God doesn't think he's a senator.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

A philosopher – Shestov I think – once noted that, since philosophy deals with the most difficult and important issues concerning existence, philosophers think themselves the most important people. He then notes: "A bank clerk, who is always handing money out, might just as well consider himself a millionaire.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance - that drives me crazy.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

For there is in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. Improve his lot, and he will forget that which makes him pleasing- his sense of worship, his humility. He will grow poisoned with pride and fancy himself a god...

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham.

That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet.