Quotes About Self-importance

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

But don't forget that arrogant men who think too much of themselves always end up alone.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

There's no bullshit more self-serving than the idea that you're a precious snowflake, irreplaceable and deserving to be treated like a thoroughbred, when there are ten more just like you who'd do your job every bit as well.

Go home, put on a pretty dress, some heels, and some lipstick, flirt with him, flatter him, and never forget how insecure men are. It's because they take themselves far too seriously.

I'm tired of self-important mentalities

Chimaera Most people, today, are chimaera chimerical: just fantasies of self-importance their own self-importance and sphinxes of self-consciousness.

He hated you for what you said: that his tubified art is sentimental and self-important.

He doesn't have feelings, he only has streams of words about feelings. I'm tired of self-important mentalities.

Walsh was too full of his own—how shall I put it?—posthumous importance; too convinced that he should be seen almost as much a victim as his daughter, to confine himself to the truth. He would embellish things to put himself in the best possible light.

People have 1000 times more interest in themselves than in you. So give them time and importance.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well

The worst thing about him was that while he appeared to know more facts than could be contained in the world's largest encyclopaedia, he seemed not to know the most important fact of all – that nobody was remotely interested in a word he had to say.

My father has a high opinion of his opinion

...for Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt...

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

His vanity stands alone, sky-piercing, as sharp of outline as an Egyptian monolith. It is the only unpleasant feature in him that is not modified, softened, compensated by some converse characteristic.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.