Top 223 Egotism Quotes & Sayings

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

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

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.

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

Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

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

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

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.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

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

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

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.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

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

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.