(9 quotes found)
“Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.'”
Chamfort
“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”
Winston Graham
“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“ An egotist can never expect anything good. ”
Rig Veda
“Egotistical involvement in Maya is filth, Maya is overflowing with filth.”
Guru Nanak
“Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.”
Henry Ford
“The egotists may go on pilgrimages to holy rivers, sacred shrines and foreign lands, but they only gather more of the dirt of egotism.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Don't do the Impossible for someone who wouldn't do the possible for you.”
Assya Moussaid
“I think, myself, it is harder for two artists, both ambitious, both temperamental, both perhaps egotistical, to jog along equably in the necessarily restraining atmosphere of a double harness.”
Conrad Veidt