“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”
J. Donald Walters
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
George III
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”
Kelly Miller
“Came you from Court? for in your Mien, A self-important air is seen.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.”
Lili Taylor
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
Earl Wilson
