Egotistical Behavior Quotes

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

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

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.