Inflated Sense of Self Quotes

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

People tend to take themselves too seriously.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

My dad is an egomaniac.

What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is an aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.