Quotes About Self-importance

Already Edward Drone was beginning to feel something of what it meant to hold office and there was creeping into his manner the quiet self-importance which is the first sign of conscious power.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. —Jefferson Davis

Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.

The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.

La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor.

psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the centre of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules.

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Not to have a big head about it, but people love me.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

typical teenage narcissism

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look. The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the— ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.

She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.