Egotism Quotes - Page 12

• Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

  Jim Croce

  Genius, Matter, Facts

  Song: Workin' At The Carwash Blues

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• You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Thinking, Feelings, Tonight

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• Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Philosophy, Males

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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• We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Boys, Whiskey, Smoke

  Song: A Country Boy Can Survive

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• IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
  THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

  Dogen

  Exercise, Greed, Would Be

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• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  James Anthony Froude

  Writing, Adventure, Mean

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselves. Laden with my own egotism. Laden with all my sins. And when I went to bed last night and thought about everything and wanted to bring all those difficulties to God, I couldn't even find the words!

  Diet Eman

  Pride, Night, Thinking

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• Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Causes, Action, Obsessed

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 11, 2015

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• Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

  Napoleon Hill

  Heart, Humble, Humility

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• When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.

  Gene Chandler

  Duchess

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• Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives. Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Blessing, Doors

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• When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

  Steve Martin

  Kings, Thinking, Nuts

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• Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, Giving, Doe

  "Classics Revisited". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Casanova: History of My Life", p. 153, 1968.

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• Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

  Ouida

  Religious, War, Soul And Body

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Catholic, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I get hoes like acorns falling out of trees.

  Master P

  Fall, Hoe, Tree

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• 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

  Demand, Companion, Vocation

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• I know perfectly well my own egotism.

  Walt Whitman

  Wells, My Own, Knows

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.67, NYU Press

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• Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

  Mother Teresa

  Poverty

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• On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

  George Thorogood

  Nurse, Joy, Wonder

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Home, Humanity, Horizon

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• Welcome to the church of me.

  Paula Cole

  Church, Welcome

  Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996

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• I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kings, Dirt, Found

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greed, Despair, Demand

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.214

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