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 Smith
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Barbara Stanwyck
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
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Fatema Mernissi
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
Francois Hollande
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins
If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Gloria Naylor
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.
John Edwards
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
John Milius
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
John Rhys-Davies
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
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
