Quotes About Self-importance

He bore a certain "hubris," she thought, of the kind that carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Everything about Robert's personality— from his abrupt, jerky way of walking to such little things as the making of a salad dressing—displayed, she thought, "a great need to declare his preeminence.

I'm the f*cking end-all, be-all of music.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Aesop 's pretty fable of the fly that sate on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the sky, raises new skies and new spheres and circles.

De qué sirve presumir, rosal, de buen parecer, si aun no acabas de nacer cuando empiezas a morir?

se te olvide, mi hijito, que mientras más importante te sientas en la vida, más pendejo serás…

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings.

Your ego doesn't count as a separate individual, Shallan.

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourself." "Too proud to crawl?" Kelsier said. "Nosense! Why, I'd say that we Mistborn are too proud not to be humble enough to go crawling about--in a dignified manner, of course." Dockson frowned, approaching the desk. "Kell, that didn't make any sense." "We Mistborn need not make sense.

Hubris is an inflated sense of one's own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than to actual accomplishments. It

pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable.

but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

He was distinguished to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that was not noble and majestic. Newman had never yet been confronted with such an incarnation of the art of taking oneself seriously; he felt a sort of impulse to step backward, as you do to get a view of a great facade.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me.

This millennial generation... you guys seem so entitled.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former then you've become too full of yourself.

We were as big as the ocean, but as fragile as an ego.

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

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.