Mastery passes often for egotism.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of...

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain,...

Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Mastery is often taken for egotism

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

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

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings...

Ego got you thinkin’ you’re workin’ somebody to your advantage; you’re just playin’ yourself.

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

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going....

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything ‘Let it be done’ he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it...

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.

The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system…

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they’re better than average.

An empire is an immense egotism

In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness – in other people’s eyes. Fame, admiration, envy – all which come from others. Others dictated...

You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

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

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of ‘coming out,’ of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks...

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme —...

O camel-like mind, you were once very pure; the filth of egotism has now attached itself to you.

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live...

I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce.

Both the mind and “presence” can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

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...

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

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the...

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on...