Egotism quotations

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◆ The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

- Osho99

◆ An empire is an immense egotism.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously.

- Martin Dansky98

◆ Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art.

- Martin Dansky98

◆ I own and operate a ferocious ego.

- Bill Moyers98

◆ Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool

- Bellamy BrookS98

◆ Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

- Colin Powell98

◆ Deny Self for Self's sake

- Benjamin Franklin98

◆ Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

- Barbara Stanwyck98

◆ 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 Smith98

◆ 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 Stevens98

◆ The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

- Harold S Geneen98

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

- Arnold Bennett98

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

- Thomas Carlyle98

◆ I have nothing to declare except my genius.

- Oscar Wilde98