Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Self Importance. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Self Importance Quotes And Sayings by 88 Authors including Tara Brach,James Stephens,John Templeton,Oprah Winfrey,Andrea Corr for you to enjoy and share.

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...other people want to feel important and loved. Just that. [author's patient, Phil]
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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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People just want to know that they matter.
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
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What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you.
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Every need got an ego to feed.
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If you think, you are important, you are not.
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Every fool loves to hear that he's important
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Ego and pride is a two headed twist.
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Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
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The ultimate significance in life comes not from something external but from something internal. It comes from a sense of esteem for ourselves, which is not something we can ever get from someone else. People
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Egotism fears its own self.
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Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.
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Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
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It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
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The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.
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This is the true selfishness: self-centeredness.
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Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.
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There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
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It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
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the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.
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Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
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Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.
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Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.
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Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
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It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.
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It's human; we all put self interest first.
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Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing,
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Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
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From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.
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What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
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It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
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Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity
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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.
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Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.
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Necessity is the mother of self-delusion.
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Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.
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WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.
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we go through our social lives convinced that everything we are saying, doing and feeling is being closely examined by those around us even though, in reality, they are all preoccupied with themselves, equally convinced the spotlight is on them.
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Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected ... a passion for distinction.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.
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Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
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Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper
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What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
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Importance ! What is it, sir after all ? The respect of fools, the wonder of children, the envy of the rich, the contempt of the wise man. - Barnave.
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To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
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The ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others
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When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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if we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we have to refrain from doing things that will trigger their disfavor.
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Worrying is the greatest egoism!
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Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.
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By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.
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It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
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How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
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Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.
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Egolessness is contentment.
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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Never give importance to anyone more than yourself, because once that person becomes important, you become nothing ...
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves
there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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Nothing has value without self worth
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This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
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To care for things when others don't care, that's what makes you human.
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It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.
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Care more than others think wise.
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What is vanity but the longing to survive?
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There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.
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Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.
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What's important is self-appreciation.
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The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.
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Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.
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Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.
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The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
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Self-love, self-esteem.
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The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'
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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.
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We all have the need to feel special.
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A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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If you keep giving importance to unimportant things, you can never achieve important things!