Quotes About Self-importance

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Are you making fun of my hero complex?' Yeah.

Vampires, they're like the gift that won't stop giving. It's a good fruitful place to find comedy because they take themselves so seriously.

When you have a star, he becomes the focus of a variety show, and he has to take himself seriously. But with Super Dave, it's all phony anyway.

Su niekuo ji nesutikdavo – buvo pernelyg išdidi, kad kovot? d?l pirmos vietos, ir per daug ambicinga, kad pasitenkint? antr?j?.

A la vérité, il forçait un peu sur le sublime : c'était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

There is this fallacy of the 'cool' comedian out there. You see the guys who take themselves very seriously and think they're being very suave and sardonic. But they're just jesters like the rest of us; they're just goons like we all are. The job is to make people laugh.

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

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

THE SECOND MARK of existence is egolessness, sometimes called no-self. These words can be misleading. They don't mean that we disappear—or that we erase our personality. Egolessness means that the fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem. Self-importance is like a prison for

BY WEAVING our opinions, prejudices, strategies, and emotions into a solid reality, we try to make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, out of our problems. But things are not as solid, predictable, or seamless as they seem.

Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.

The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

But the whole town got vain over it

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

I have always been an arrogant man.

Las personas que disfrutan en provincias de algún tipo de consideración y que encuentran a cada paso una prueba de su importancia, no se acostumbran a esta súbita y total pérdida de su valor.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.