#egotism

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

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#form #really #self-consciousness

Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#humor #sarcasm #taste #humor

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us. ↗

— Okakura Kakuzo

#egotism #vanity #money

Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. ↗

— Bobbe Sommer

#happiness #modesty #opinion #precondition #regard