If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.