Quotes About Egotists

#1. Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

David Ogilvy

#2. With so many egotists and liars in the world the truth becomes an ever more rare and valuable commodity.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#3. Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#4. He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.

Andrei Platonov

#5. Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#6. There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Laurence J. Peter

#7. A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

Eric Mabius

#8. We are all such egotists that a sorrow or hardship - provided it is great enough - flatters our self-importance. We feel that a calamity by overtaking us has distinguished us above our fellows. A man likes not to be ignored even by a railway accident. A man with a grievance is always happy.

W.N.P. Barbellion

#9. There will always be insatiable egotists who need to dominate and control, and there cannot be anarchy if no one follows the rules.

T. Mountebank

#10. If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#11. Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#12. Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Romario

#13. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Oscar Wilde

#14. We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. The pest of society is egotists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Chris O'Dowd

#17. My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

Samuel Pepys

#18. The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#19. You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

Chris Waddle

#20. Welcome to Hell where you're screwed if you do and damned if don't. And just so you know, Lucifer has a special spot reserved for you ...

Eve Langlais

#21. The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

Octavio Paz

#22. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#23. There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.

Samuel Palmer

#24. Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

Stephen Hawking

#25. Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Richard Paul Evans

#26. I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.

Barbara Mikulski

#27. Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sacrifice of love.

Elizabeth George

#28. [about sex and being married] It's like being the National Guard, we may not be seeing as much action as the front line, but we are living to fight another day.

Jeff Foxworthy

#29. HOW THIN IS the wall between us and madness? No one knows what it is made

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#30. The fears you don't face imprison you.

Robin Sharma