Quotes About Self-importance

A small man is like a small dog, always barking about what he can do.

The fool doesn't think anything well done except what he did or what he is doing.

Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I am more important than my problems.

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance

the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority—not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail.

The woman had her nose so far up in the air that she was in danger of drowning in a rainstorm.

Being in your twenties has changed a lot since I was in my twenties, but it is still a time everything awful that happens is awful in a romantic way, even if you don't admit it (and you can't admit it because then you would be less important in the tragedy you're starring in, your own life)...because in your twenties you know, even if you don't admit this either, even if this is buried deep in your subconscious, that you can waste an entire decade and still have a life.

qui siedo sempre come un maestoso cazzo fra duoi coglioni. [...I always sit here like a majestic prick between two balls.]

It's not good to have a huge ego.

I think the concept of ego has kind of taken over for a lot of people in our industry.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.