#egotism

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

#character #distinctive #egotism #egotist #full

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

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

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#egotism #inspirational-quotes #beauty

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#self-centered #self-importance #business

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#outlook #change

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#egotism #quotes-to-live-by #selfish #death

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dogs #egotism #faithfulness #friends #friendship

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction. ↗

— Jetta Carleton

#conviction #egotism #inspirational #inspirational

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#selfishness #war #life