Top 100 Quotes About Egotism
#2. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
Glen Duncan
#3. We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Karen Armstrong
#4. It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
William Hazlitt
#5. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. 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
#7. The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
Charles B. MacDonald
#8. I am an expert witness because I say I am.
Don Henley
#9. The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
H.L. Mencken
#10. 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 Kakuzo
#11. Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Maurice Levy
#12. We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#15. Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#16. Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
Evan Esar
#18. Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Irving Layton
#19. 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
#20. Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.
Fulton J. Sheen
#21. If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
#22. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.
Charlotte Bronte
#25. Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry
Victor Hugo
#27. The spirit of deception, you see," Father Maximos explained, "has egotism and pride as its primary attribute.
Kyriacos C. Markides
#28. Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#30. 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
#31. Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#32. 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
#36. Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?
J. Oswald Sanders
#37. Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life.
Oscar Wilde
#38. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
#39. 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.
Ilona Andrews
#40. I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.
Elizabeth Peters
#42. Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul's possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
Gustave Flaubert
#43. 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
#44. Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.
John Cleese
#45. When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.
Gene Chandler
#46. Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
Kenneth Rexroth
#48. Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Gloria Naylor
#49. Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
Hugh Kingsmill
#50. 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
#51. Yeats knew nothing about life: it was all symbols
& Wordsworthian egotism: Yeats on Cemetery Ridge
would not have been scared, like you & me,
he would have been, before the bullet that was his,
studying the movements of the birds,
said disappointed & amazed Henry.
John Berryman
#52. As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.
Germaine Greer
#53. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Helen Rowland
#54. Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce
#55. You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
Harry Truman
#56. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism.
Will Durant
#57. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides,
Oscar Wilde
#58. 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
#59. Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps
#60. I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
Robert M. Pirsig
#61. Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.
Jen Hatmaker
#62. I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
Guru Nanak
#63. People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.
Duop Chak Wuol
#64. The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
William Inge
#66. Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
Omar N. Bradley
#67. Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.
James Russell Lowell
#68. Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.
Hugh Dalton
#69. Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin
#70. The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Charles De Gaulle
#71. The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion of interests, are the dangers which almost invariably arise from the magnitude of States.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#72. Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
Mother Teresa
#73. 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
#74. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
Gary Hopkins
#75. Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#76. 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
#77. The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life ... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
Christina Stead
#78. 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
#79. In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself.
T.F. Hodge
#82. The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
Ramakrishna
#83. [M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#84. Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Guru Nanak
#85. You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.
Madonna Ciccone
#87. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.
Zarina Bibi
#88. There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
Charlotte Bronte
#89. Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#90. It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.
Shirley Chisholm
#92. Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
Henry Van Dyke
#93. The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever-increasing attention in themselves.
Marcel Proust
#94. Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security, is rarely cajoled, least of all questioned. Much of the magic of of life space contrast has passed out of North American life.
Geoff Mains
#96. 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
#97. Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
William Hazlitt
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
