Egotism Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Enquiry, Modesty

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• What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

  Sherwood Anderson

  Men, Ego, Important

  Sherwood Anderson (1947). “The Sherwood Anderson reader”

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Happiness, Tyranny

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• LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

  Mina Loy

  Appreciation, Self, May

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Glory

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.157, Moody Publishers

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• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Pride, Men

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

  Dr. Dre

  Kings, Trying, Aces

  Song: Still D.R.E.-Feat. Snoop Dogg, Album: Dr. Dre 2001

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• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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• I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

  Guru Nanak

  Night, Bliss, Constant

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• An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humorous, Profound, Ego

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• 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.

  John Milius

  Quality, Directors, Fields

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, Dwelling, House

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Self Reliance, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

  George Santayana

  Intolerance, Share, Form

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• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Special, Bows, Faults

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Names, Self, Ego

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• It is never permissible to say, I say.

  Suzanne Curchod

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 80), 1896.

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• An empire is an immense egotism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Empires, Immense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.364

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• Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Apology, Two Sides, Ego

  1858-9 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

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• Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

  Gloria Naylor

  Self, Consciousness, Form

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• The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Morbid, Cures

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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