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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
— Booker T. Washington
Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
— Taylor Swift
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
— Helen Rowland
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
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Therefore there is only one form of freedom for Stirner, "my power," and only
one truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars. — Albert Camus
one truth, "the magnificent egotism of the stars. — Albert Camus
The grim
egoism (egotism)
of mourning
of suffering — Roland Barthes
egoism (egotism)
of mourning
of suffering — Roland Barthes
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
Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life.
— Oscar Wilde
So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
— Hector Bianciotti
Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.
— Napoleon Hill
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
— Mother Teresa
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
— Marianne Moore
If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
— Tennessee Ernie Ford
An empire is an immense egotism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.
— Michael Jackson
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
— Guru Gobind Singh
When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.
— Gene Chandler
I didn't mean to turn you on.
— Cherrelle
There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.
— Madonna Ciccone
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
— Camille Paglia
The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Nothing is more to me than myself.
— Max Stirner
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When I release, you loose teeth.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
— George V. Higgins
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
— Bobby Darin
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism.
— Will Durant
Mastery passes often for egotism.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
— Henry Van Dyke
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
— Hank Williams Jr.
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license,
— Fulton J. Sheen
I am an expert witness because I say I am.
— Don Henley
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
— Karen Armstrong
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.
— Jose Saramago
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
— William Inge
I do things my way and I pay a high price.
— John Mellencamp
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
— Edwin Balmer
A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.
— Suketu Mehta
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
— Swami Vivekananda
In literature mere egotism is delightful.
— Oscar Wilde
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
— Sharon Gannon
The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
— Maurice Levy
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
— Swami Vivekananda
No act is so private it does not seek applause.
— John Updike
It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism
— M.F. Moonzajer
The pest of society is egotists.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
— Edie Brickell
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
— William Hazlitt
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
— Sydney J. Harris
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
— George Santayana
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
— Guru Nanak
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
— Gary Hopkins
I'm the greatest in this world.
— Ringo Starr
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Politicians look for interests not people
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.
— Marilyn Manson
I've got soul and I'm super bad.
— James Brown