Quotes About Self-importance

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

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.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

If it pleases you to think so of yourself,Gregori,that's fine with me. You are arrogant enough for several males; you don't need me to feed you compliments.