Self Importance Quotes

Self Importance Quote of the day

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes to support their agenda.

You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

before feminism was, Paglia was!

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

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.

Self importance is pride of a soul.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory