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“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.”

“I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Sides Team Self Esteem Confidence Assurance Self Empowerment Your Side Be Confident Self-importance Estimating

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

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

Self Individual Virtue Importance Faults Exaggerated Self-importance

Book:Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

“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.”

People Giving Real Self Difficult Succeed Illusion Importance Humble Being Famous Real You Self-importance Stay Humble

Author:Lili Taylor

“The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .”

Men Should Self Philosophy Nature Teaching Brother Importance Prejudice Contemplation Superstitions Remedy Serenity Strengthening Self-importance

Author:Luther Burbank

“Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.”

Men World Doe Dream Aim Welfare Self-importance

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

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

Self Play Roles Humility Buddhism Importance Indulgence Self-importance Self Indulgence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.”

Self Matter Humility Buddhism Ego Importance Sense Of Self Self-importance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.”

“Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.”

Giving Self Fame Importance Delusion Self-importance Self Delusion

Author:Al Goldstein

“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.”

People Thinking Important Self Fall Actors Hurt Importance Colossal Self-importance

Author:Julia Sawalha

“Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.”

Self Action Certain Type Concerned Importance Welfare Sense Of Self Self-importance Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.”

World Self Care Loses Compassion Teaching Essence Importance Welfare Self-importance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.”

Seems Walks Common Mist Self-importance Clearness

Book:The Spanish gypsy

Source: The Spanish gypsy

“I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.”

Thinking Wish Deals Sells Making Money Self-importance

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.”

Trying Self My Own Views Behinds Too Much Regard Shoulders Twists Self-importance

Book:Braided Lives

Source: Braided Lives

“Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.”

Attention Listening Boast Self-importance

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.”

People Thinking Interest Self-importance

Book:Elders and Betters

Source: Elders and Betters

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

Concern Self-importance

Book:A Heritage and its History

Source: A Heritage and its History

“Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.”

Attention Drama Massive Self-importance

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?”

Lasts Nations Interest Class Election Moses Self-importance

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.”

Littles Doe Affair Intense Discussion Self-importance

Author:Alice Duer Miller

“How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.”

Ifs Should Honor Friendly Self-importance

Book:General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

Source: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

“self-interest usually brings injustice with it.”

Self Interest Injustice Self Interest Self-importance

Author:Catherine the Great

“The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.”

“before feminism was, Paglia was!”

Feminism Self-importance

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.”

Devil Horse Conceit Reformers Self-importance

Author:Margaret Deland

“Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.”

Misery Bitter Cups Self-importance

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“nobody is a good judge in his own cause!”

Causes Judging Self-importance Good Judges

Book:Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts

Source: Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts

“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.”

Men Self-importance

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“Self-love knows no impediment.”

Knows Self Self Love Impediments Self-importance

Author:Lynda Obst

“It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.”

Mind Common Failing Rate Ambitious Self-importance

Book:Glenarvon (1816).

Source: Glenarvon (1816).

“It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.”

People Way Said Half Break Humorous Tragedy Manage Tone Remarkable Superiority Distinguished Self-importance Tenors

Book:The Dark Dawn

Source: The Dark Dawn

“affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.”

Shows Reality Greater Blow Trumpets Self-importance

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself.”

Firsts Persons Sincerely First Person Self-importance

Author:Louella Parsons

“how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!”

People Persons Self Names Importance Ridiculous Labels Negation Self-importance Strutting

Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.”

Thinking Wells Self Faces Known Importance Twenties Boots Well Known Sense Of Self Scottish Carried Away Self-importance

Author:Ashley Jensen

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

Self Importance Investing Spending Offended Self-importance Don Juan Juan

Book:The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

“There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”

Men Should Wisdom Purpose Opinion Dog Standing Profound Lips Appearance Stillness Gravity Cream Conceit Bark Merchants Ponds Oracles Self-importance Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”

Thinking Men Self Matter Moments Realizing Effort Plans Truth Is Importance Strive Meaningless Traps Liberating Unimportant Self-importance Nothing Matters

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.”

Knows Littles Self Bits Little Bit Importance Patterns Self-importance

Author:John de Ruiter

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

Self Action Pride Development Importance Self-importance

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.”

Men Want Wells Kind Littles Advantage Tendencies Display Self-importance Little Knowledge

Book:The Tale of Genji

Source: The Tale of Genji

“To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?”

Mind May Matter Tragedy Self-importance

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that we don't, can't, will never matter. ... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter.”

Want Humans Matter Deeper Convinced Self-importance Human Will

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.”

Self Planets Sense Of Self Narcissist Self-importance

Author:Anna C Salter

“When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.”

Self Feelings Found Successful Becoming Drug Abuse Importance Vanity Demon Thrill Self-importance Drug Abuse

Author:Ethan Hawke

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

Self Leadership Importance Persistent Persuasive Good Leader Self-importance Good Leadership

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad