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Tag Name "Egotism" (188)

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We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.
Frederick Lenz
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Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.
Napoleon Hill
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I do things my way and I pay a high price.
John Mellencamp
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
Germaine Greer
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Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.
Guru Gobind Singh
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Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
Swami Vivekananda
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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Charles de Gaulle
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Who the hell can he be? He's never had V.D.
Jethro Tull
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As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
Pierre Corneille
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?
J. Oswald Sanders
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Conceit is thinking you're great egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin
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Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
Hugh Kingsmill
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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
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Youth ends when egotism does maturity begins when one lives for others.
Hermann Hesse
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
Billy Joel
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Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Maurice Levy
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I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a third leg.
Big Daddy Kane
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Victor Hugo
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