Egotism Quotes
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.
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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.
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I didn't mean to turn you on.
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Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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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.
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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.
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They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.
