#egotism

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

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

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#egotism #inspirational-quotes #beauty

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

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#egotism #either #else #evil #happy

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#egotism #enlarged #fellow #fellow men #his

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#faults #miseries #source #summary

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#dwelling #egotism #forget #may #remember

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. ↗

— George V. Higgins

#cannot #egotism #others #see #seeing