Self Importance Quotes: top 72 famous quotes about Self Importance

Self Importance Quotes & Sayings

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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that. — Alice Temperley

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine. — David Whyte

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. — J. Donald Walters

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being. — Anne Foy

Each of us needs to find our own special gift and develop it — Sunday Adelaja

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation. — Mark Leibovich

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. — A.J. Darkholme

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look
like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta

Before feminism was, Paglia was! — Camille Paglia

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison

Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. — Robert Fulghum

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance. — Robert Galbraith

all of us lost souls allow ourselves to live in worry and anger and self-importance and pettiness when life with God is all around us: — John Ortberg

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. — Frederick Lenz

I consider myself more exportant than important. — Vanna Bonta

experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When — Padma Lakshmi

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. — Al Goldstein

I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence. — Cassandra Clare

An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories. — Bryant McGill

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction. — Catherine Robinson-Walker

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. — Carlos Castaneda

Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest "is". - Rossana Condoleo — Rossana Condoleo

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:
'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment. — Idries Shah

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do. — Ann M. Fudge

I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance — Amy Tan

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live? — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic. — Anton Chekhov

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. — Bertrand Russell

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day. — Jeffrey Bernard

She was quivering with self-importance, like a small enraged football. — Terry Pratchett

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. — Julia Sawalha

Self importance is man's greatest enemy. — Carlos Castaneda

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace. — Matthieu Ricard

Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into — Rajesh Nanoo

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things — Dada Bhagwan

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be. — Benjamin Hoff

We might do well to take a look at what we've crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we've crammed into our hearts. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Regardless of how important we are, our importance is made important in the impacts we make on earth — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Self importance is pride of a soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone. — E'yen A. Gardner

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance. — Marcia Whicker

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance. — Willem Buiter

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance. — Joseph O'Connor

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. — Jean Anouilh

Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset — Tony Dovale

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. — Whitfield Diffie

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. — Kelly Miller

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. — John Ruskin

The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth. — Alexander McCall Smith

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for. — Stephen L. Carter

We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter. — Don DeLillo

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance. — Fady Joudah

Self importance is self pride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity. — Tom Brokaw

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go 'Uh, I'm kind of an asshole. — Louis C.K.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

Butterflies tickle my insides. "You either have an Olympian-sized sense of self-importance, or you're overcompensating for a lack of confidence. — Amanda Bouchet

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around. — Johnny Rich

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. — Bill Walton

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. — Donna Lynn Hope

Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. — Ann Landers

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. — John Irving

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — R.H. Blyth

Her utter lack of self-importance made her passionate. In a word, she was happy. — Francoise Sagan