Inflated Self-Image Quotes

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

A four-year-old should have no self-esteem, and for good reason. What could he have possibly accomplished in his life to justify esteeming oneself so highly?

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

He had delusions of adequacy.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.