Quotes About Self-importance

There is never too much care when choosing shoes. Many women consider themselves important but the real evidence of that is on their legs.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Small things make base men proud.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected.

No doubt the decline of religion accounts for the rise in self-obsession and self-importance that is everywhere observable. One of the great advantages of the Christian philosophy was that it managed to reconcile the unique importance of each man with humility. Every man was important in the eyes of God, and in that sense was at home in the universe because the universe was expressly created for beings such as he.

It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.