Quotes About Self-importance

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Elena Pavlovna was for him [Tsar Nicholas I] the personification of those empty people who talked not only about science and poetry, but also about governing people, imagining that they could govern themselves better than he, Nicholas, governed them.

Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I have been vain since birth.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

The last infirmity of a noble mind»: la última flaqueza de una mente noble. Es lo que dice Milton de la vanidad. ¿Qué le parece? Hasta los mejores hombres tienen su granito de vanidad. Lo cual quiere decir que, cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene, y que los peores, como Ferrer, son sólo vanidad.

cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene

it is to this ardor for making oneself the topic of conversation, to this furor to distinguish oneself which nearly always keeps us outside ourselves, that we owe what is best and worst among men, our virtues and vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers, that is to say, a multitude of bad things against a small number of good ones.

Brooks Ashmanskas - rehearsing and putting on a show can be very stressful and exhausting, but Brooks makes every moment a joyride. His influence taught me to never take myself or what I'm doing too seriously.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

The degree to which Americans talk about themselves as a special, unique country has often struck me as a little grandiose. You don't hear the French, or Brits, or Australians talk about themselves that way - though they may well feel it.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.