Quotes About Self-importance

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Arrogance, like anger, is often a fatal flaw.

I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me," Napoleon vaunted.

Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.

Self aggrandizement is the most worthy and agreeable of sovereigns' occupations," the king wrote to the Marquis de Villars in 1688.7

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

los hombre que si bien reconocen que otros son más sagaces, más elocuentes o más cultos, difícilmente llegan a creer que haya muchos tan sabios como ellos mismos, ya que cada uno ve su propio talento a la mano, y el de los demás hombres a distancia. [...]" (Hobbes, Leviatán. Cap XIII.).

But when I was an energetic self-important 10-year-old and found myself in a roomful of grownups, I felt guilty, and thought it only polite to conceal the fun I was having elsewhere. When an aged figure addressed me – they were all aged – I worried that what showed in my face was pity.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance. Accordingly, it presents an almost overwhelming temptation – how can I not be excused the occasional mockery?

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance. Accordingly, it presents an almost overwhelming temptation – how can I not be excused the occasional mockery? Alas, the Patriotists lacked flexibility in such matters – the deadliest weapon against them was derisive laughter, and they knew it.

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much.

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.