Egotism Quotes

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.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

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.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

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.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

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.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

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.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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

...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.

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

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

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

I didn't mean to turn you on.

Making love with his ego.