Quotes About Self-importance

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be very disappointed that they are not it.

When someone says 'Id explain but its complicated.' I'm not offended they think so little of me, I'm offended they think so much of themselves.

No, por favor. No soporto la vanidad masculina cuando se desata espontáneamente.

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.

Ce sont donc les gens dotés d'un ego surdimensionné et qui se sentent vulnérables qui sont les plus dangereux

Es error común de los humanos creer que el prójimo concede a su persona tanta importancia como cada uno se da a sí mismo; los demás, a no ser que tengan interés particular en el recuerdo, olvidan rápidamente lo que nos ha ocurrido, y si no lo han olvidado, su recuerdo no tiene la firmeza que imaginamos.

We are all apt to fall into the error of assuming that other people think we are as important as we do ourselves; but unless there is some particular reason for their remembering it, others forget what has happened to us very quickly; and, even if they have not forgotten, their memories attach much less weight to it than we are inclined to believe.