Quotes and Sayings about Egoism

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

I think once you call yourself a genius, you stop growing.

The most inflated egos are often the most fragile.

I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world, and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Earth's tombstone may be like:
"Everyone wanted the best - for themselves."

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

I state without arrogance I am the most desired man on the planet.

I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I'm getting full of myself.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Does it really need a reason to help somebody?

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Halston: "Some models just wear clothes. Elsa, she makes them her own."
Ed: "I thought Liza was your muse?"
Halston: "Well, you can't have too many muses."

Whether you win or lose, looking back and learning from your experience is a part of life.

Show us with your actions, not your mouth!

Human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.