Self-Centered Behavior Quotes

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

We don't plan to be good or bad. We just think, 'What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.'

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

I have known Eto'o since I was 16 and since then I always liked him. He is a good person, but he always thinks of himself and not the group.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath; he's doing exactly what he said he would do.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.