Egotistical Quotes

• I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Artist, Want

  "Remembering Lou Reed: 10 Quotes From A True Rock God" by Sam Parker, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2013.

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sorry, Hands, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, Games, People

  13 Copy quote

• Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

  Joan Jett

  People, Not Pretty, Persons

  13 Copy quote

• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

  Anne Frank

  Inspiring, Self, Laughing

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unhappy

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

  19 Copy quote

• If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

  "John Templeton, billionaire U.S. philanthropist, dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. July 08, 2008.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

  Soseki Natsume

  Loneliness, Self, Independence

  17 Copy quote

• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Ego

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  Zoe Saldana

  Animal, Brain, Narcissistic

  "Zoe Saldana: I like movies that make you feel uncomfortable". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. January 14, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

  Herman Melville

  Climbing, Mountain, Towers

  "Moby Dick".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

  Christine Lavin

  Rude, Want, Wells

  8 Copy quote

• A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

  Michael Caine

  Choices, Second Choice

  10 Copy quote

• I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

  Eric Heiden

  Fans, Outspoken, Bigs

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Self, Kind

  9 Copy quote

• It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Reality, Feel Good

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

  Ruben Papian

  Nature, Kings, Men

  6 Copy quote

• A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Self, Joy

  Marcel Proust's preface (1910) to John Ruskin "The Bible of Amiens" translated by Marcel Proust (1904); later quoted in "Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin" translated by Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (p. 53), 1987.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Weakness, Want

  6 Copy quote

• I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Selfish, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.553, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Losing Control, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Thinking, Universe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source