Quotes About Self-importance

I'm a very egotistical person.

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

And the real actors look down on those from the drama school and are sure to let them know. They also look down on each other, but that they don't show too much. In any case, there's a hell of a lot of looking down on each other, and everyone thinks they're the only one who's wonderful. And the janitors are the only ones who act like normal people and greet you when you say hello to them.

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.

he proclaimed his spiritual superiority: "I know more than all the world put tog[ethe]r. & If the h[oly]. G[host]. in me com[municates]: more than all the world I will associate with it."83 Charlotte Haven, who visited Nauvoo in 1843, noticed that Smith "talked incessantly about himself, what he had done and could do more than other mortals, and remarked that he was 'a giant, physically and mentally.' In fact, he seemed to forget that he was a man.

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

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

The biggest mistake people make is that they think they're special. They're not.

When you recognize that you're a human being who sometimes makes mistakes, you won't get caught up in the illusion of self-importance. — Deepak Chopra, M.D.

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

Im the best thing that ever happened to you and you will end up alone and wishing you had me back.

Principles are important in life, but when they begin to boost ones ego, then they turn into a burden for relationships.

If every story someone tells you revolves around how great they are and how they're always the victim in situations they're most likely full of sh...

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first- naming for effect makes me cringe.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Vanity does not pay the bills.

If you're entitled, you likely think you know more than you do.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

I am the mainstream.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.