Quotes About Self-importance

Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.

Self-Righteousness

Everyone has an ego. Even someone that doesn't play one minute has an ego.

Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. 

La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Arrogance takes many forms.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

If you had as much sense as a half-witted hummingbird, you would realize that I am interested in how big I am—not how big you are. All this talk about your enormous success makes me feel small and unimportant.]

Tak seorang pun yang lebih angkuh daripada orang yang percaya bahwa dirinya kebal dari marabahaya dunia.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.

Good leadership is pervasive persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

On the small neutral ground of self-importance, the best men and the worst meet on the same terms.

He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . .

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings set neatly and clothes handsomely.

Beware of ANY vision at all in which you personally have been singled out to play a lead role in the redoing of all human history. You haven't.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

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

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension