Quotes About Self-importance

man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.

Desks are to executives what souped-up Mitsubishi Colts with low-profile alloys, metal-flake paint jobs, and extra-loud, chrome-plated exhaust pipes are to chavs; they're a big swinging dick, the proxy they use to proclaim their sense of self-importance. If you want to understand an executive, you study his desk.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence.

Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

But no place gives you everything. I'm equally mistrustful of the energy bursts New York gives you, which fragment and exhaust you. Living there gives you a phony sense of self-importance and confidence. If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

And the thing is, that's all fantastic. I'm glad they work at the soup kitchen and care about their causes. It's the self-congratulatory sense they have, so gravely discussing their commitment and level of knowledge.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.

When people close to us try to boost their self-importance by cutting us down, the wounds go deep.

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don't make the books. You don't write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn't work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.

Cunts want to be snowflakes, they want you to tell them how nobody in this whole world compares to them, apologizes to Prince. All the little fame monsters on Instagram, look at me, I put jam on my toast.

Without fully realizing it, however, I was actually placing myself in a godlike position of authority.

The world of the society or group becomes our whole world; our little job assumes a ridiculous importance; we lose sight of the Universe; and presently that little world of ours—did we but know it—resembles a beehive where the queen is continually stroked and flattered and soothed by the others to keep her going. Once again we have been untrue to the first love and have lost the Divine Child.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.

Tyrion shrugged. "We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.