Egotism Quotes - Page 13

• I've got soul and I'm super bad.

  James Brown

  Soul

  Song: Super Bad, Pts. 1 and 2, 1991

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Bullying, Mean, Pride

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• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

  Julien Benda

  Men, Principles, Morality

  Julien Benda (1969). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”

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• Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1173, Library of Alexandria

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• Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

  Gustave Flaubert

  Soul, Identity, Levels

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• To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Team, Race

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.

  Lewis Hyde

  Faces, Looks, Mystery

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• In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Differences, Self Reliance

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Henry David Thoreau

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• I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

  Billy Joel

  Technology, Culture, Culmination

  Song: Running On Ice, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Uplifting, Laughter

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• Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of all problems, from personal problems to global problems is the absence of love. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor. Love creates the feeling of oneness among people. It unifies a nation and its people. Love creates a sense of unity while hatred causes division. Egotism and hatred cuts people's minds into pieces. Love should rule. There is no problem which love cannot solve.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Cutting, Oneness

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.239, M A Center

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• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Compassion, Self

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• Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Rama, Coal

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• Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Mistake, Russia

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• Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

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• As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, People

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• Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

  Allen Ginsberg

  Men, Cells, Whales

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• It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Thinking, Matter

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• Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Influence, Byron

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