Egotism Quotes

• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  Hermann Hesse

  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  Wilson Mizner

  Humility, Humble, Carpe Diem

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Men, Reflection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.153

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• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  Frank Leahy

  Pain, Nfl, Stupidity

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

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• There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Mistake, Cases, Nonentity

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

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• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

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• All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Feelings, Literature, Covering

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• Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

  William Hazlitt

  Modesty, Speak, Intimate

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Speak, Ill

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 138, 1678.

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• Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Vanity, Tongue

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• Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Self, Perception

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Doe, Imagine

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• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

  Alexander Smith

  Strong, Character, Race

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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• Mastery passes often for egotism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mastery

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• The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Self, Essence, Culture

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mean, Self, Aquariums

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sex, People, Political

  Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens (1977). “Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens”, Random House Inc

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• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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• LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

  Mina Loy

  Appreciation, Self, May

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sex, Notable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.386

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