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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. -- Barbara Stanwyck
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -- Frank Leahy
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. -- Thomas Carlyle
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. -- John Milius
Mastery passes often for egotism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. -- Marianne Moore
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. -- George V. Higgins
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. -- George V. Higgins
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. -- Ambrose Bierce
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. -- George Santayana
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. -- Robert Frost
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. -- Sydney J. Harris
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. -- Orson Welles
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. -- Graham Greene
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. -- Erich Fromm
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. -- Alexander Smith
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Egotism is the tongue of vanity. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Egotism is an alphabet of one letter -- Scottish Proverb
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. -- Swami Vivekananda
Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself -- Dan Post
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. -- Guru Gobind Singh
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. -- John Henry Newman
Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going. -- Guru Gobind Singh
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool -- Bellamy Brooks
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. -- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
An empire is an immense egotism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. -- Gloria Naylor
It is never permissible to say, I say. -- Suzanne Curchod
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. -- Taylor Swift
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry. -- Nick Nolte
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. -- Taylor Swift
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. -- Arnold Bennett
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. -- Karen Armstrong
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. -- Germaine Greer
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. -- Karen Armstrong
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. -- Wallace Stevens
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. -- Alma Gluck
They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist. -- Mika
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity. -- Francois Hollande
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. -- John Edwards
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. -- Charles Horton Cooley
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. -- John Steinbeck
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Deny Self for Self's sake -- Benjamin Franklin
The ego taunts truth with sarcasm. -- T.F. Hodge
Politicians look for interests not people -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I own and operate a ferocious ego -- Bill Moyers
Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. -- Zarina Bibi
Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. -- Michael P. Naughton
I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart. -- Nirav Sanchaniya
A politician is a man in his natural state -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests. -- Duop Chak Wuol
No act is so private it does not seek applause. -- John Updike
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen. -- Gary Hopkins
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company. -- Alexandra Bracken
You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! -- Harry S. Truman
I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce. -- Jarod Kintz
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. -- T.F. Hodge
If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. -- Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong. -- Suzy Kassem
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. -- Douglas Adams
The 'Selfie Stick' has to top the list for what best defines narcissism in society today. -- Alex Morritt
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution. -- Suzy Kassem
It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism -- M.F. Moonzajer
Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind. -- T.F. Hodge
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism. -- Mother Teresa
Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are. -- William Inge
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it -- Colin Powell
Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art -- Martin Dansky
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
If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously -- Martin Dansky
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. -- Graham Greene
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
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
However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. -- Maxim Gorky
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. -- Brandon Sanderson
If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
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 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
I know perfectly well my own egotism,And know my omnivorous words, and cannot say any less,And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself. -- Walt Whitman
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism -- Germaine Greer
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
...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. -- Jose Saramago
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
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
Friends can become enemies, and enemies can become friends. Ego and pride can turn what is good into bad, and kind words can turn what is bad into something good. -- Suzy Kassem
Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. -- Bobbe Sommer
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)] -- John F. Kennedy
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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
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
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
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. -- Samuel Johnson
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
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. -- Joseph Heller
Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy. -- Anthony Kiedis
Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us. -- Okakura Kakuz?
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good -- Barbra Streisand
OPEN UP THE BLINDOpen the blinds that cover their eyesTurn on the lights inside their mindsPut all judgments and rumors asideAnd instead,Put Truth and Justice At both your sides.Leave the egos and drama all behind.Persevere and be patient in all your strides.And in time...WE WILL WIN.Truth always wins with Time. -- Suzy Kassem
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Foppery is the egotism of clothes. -- Victor Hugo
Mastery is often taken for egotism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I know perfectly well my own egotism. -- Walt Whitman
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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