Self-importance Quotes

• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Thomas Szasz

  Positive, Education, Children

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

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• 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.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Thinking, Men, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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  Never dull your shine for somebody else.

  Tyra Banks

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

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  Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

  Golda Meir

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• No one is any more or any less important than you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2011

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• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Acceptance, Opportunity, Self

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• We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Self, Envy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

  Golda Meir

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

  Kelly Miller

  Self, Faults, Virtue

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Ego

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

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• nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Judging, Causes, Good Judges

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.114, ICS Publications

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• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Self, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Strong, Differences, Ego

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.62, Bantam

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self, Investing, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• You must purge yourself of all thoughts of self-importance, and all inclination to judge either yourself or others. You must go to power with humility and deep respect.

  Mike Livingston

  Humility, Self, Judging

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• I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Romantic, Depression

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

  Al Goldstein

  Self, Giving, Fame

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

  Jim Harrison

  Self, Understanding, Losing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Thinking, Wish, Making Money

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• The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Pleasure, Should

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• 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.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Enough, Think Of Me

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