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.
Brandon SandersonTag: men struggle competition egotism
Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.
Anthony KiedisOh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
William IngeTag: egotism
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Rick YanceyTag: selfishness egotism
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 of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.
John DerbyshireTag: vanity selfishness egotism hedonish
... 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.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: men funny sarcasm pride ego dark-humor irony egotism socrates black-humor gadfly irony-of-life humorous-quotes egotist pride-trap
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 that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is matter that has forever enslaved us.
Kakuzō OkakuraPoverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
Mother TeresaThe ego taunts truth with sarcasm.
T.F. HodgeTag: truth ego egotism quotes-to-live-by
We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."
[
The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People
(The White House, July 25, 1961)]
Tag: greed egotism double-standards negotiation
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