141 Quotes About Egotism

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

The statement that the process does not involve the poet as subject, to the extent to which that is true, precludes direct egotism. On the other hand, without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none.

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called “good self-esteem.” But self-esteem isan art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much ofourselves.The name for thinking too much of ourselves is “egotism.

It is a slippery slope from arrogance to violence.

You'll learn more about life from the stand-up of a responsible comedian than from the literature of an egotistical intellectual.

Friends can become enemies, and enemies can become friends. Ego and pride can turn what is good into bad, and kind words can turn what is bad into something good.

We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

It was Yahweh, not Satan, who brought this drought upon the people and upon all that they produced. And it is Yahweh who will bring this same sort of spiritual drought upon you and upon all that you produce, if you neglect the house of God to pursue your own personal goals and insist on doing things your own way, while you whistle Frank Sinatra's song.