Quotes About Self-importance

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on

Sadece arac? olduklar? iyiliklerden ötürü erdemleriyle gurur duyan insanlar, kaçamayacaklar? saçmal?klar da yaparlar.

No man must think that the world was made for him.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

To use the mind for purposes of pride and aggrandizement is like a gusty wind or a violent storm; it cannot last long.23

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.