#egotism

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Robert Frost

#alcoholism #disease #egotism #executives #popularly

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#egotism #inspirational #sin #suffering #inspirational

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#acute #deal #egotism #everything #explanation

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#egotism #inspirational-quotes #beauty

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#self-centered #self-importance #business

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dogs #egotism #faithfulness #friends #friendship

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#men

I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny

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 Derbyshire

#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#efficient #egotism #essential #interest #living