Egotism Quotes

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

~ Criss Jami

LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

~ Mina Loy

The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system...

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called “good self-esteem.” But self-esteem isan art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much ofourselves.The name for thinking too much of ourselves is “egotism.

~ Richard N. Bolles

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

~ Paul Brunton

Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

~ Marcel Proust

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

~ Jetta Carleton

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

~ Mother Teresa

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

~ W.h. Auden

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

~ Heywood Broun

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

~ Virginia Woolf

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

~ Suzy Kassem

Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

~ T.f. Hodge

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! And oh, these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for, when we believe in nothing else but meanness and lies, when we care for no living creature but ourselves!

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

~ George Macdonald

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

~ Raheel Farooq

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

~ José Saramago

It’s alright. It’s okay if it’s about your ego. Sometimes it’s got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.

~ Crystal Zevon

A person lives a false life whenever they are afraid to make contact with his or her authentic self. A sensitive ego – one that protects a person from pain – can also prevent a person from maturing mentally and emotionally by causing a person to distort truths and refuse to admit unpleasant facts.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage, you're just playin' yourself.

~ T.f. Hodge

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.

~ T.f. Hodge

Both the mind and presence can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

A politician is a man in his natural state

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

~ Mary Maclane

In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: 'A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.' I haven’t attended confession in well over a decade, and that’s less because of dogmatic conflict than it is because of moral cowardice. Deeper than that, maybe I don’t want to be forgiven. I want to be punished. Which may be just about the most selfish, egotistical thought I’ve ever had. I’m sick with self-love. Or self-loathing. After all, they’re both essentially the same thing.

~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur.

~ Michael P. Naughton

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

~ Rick Yancey

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

~ Zarina Bibi

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.

~ John Derbyshire

Politicians look for interests not people

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana