We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks–we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back...
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Mitch Albom
Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
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Bobbe Sommer
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
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Graham Greene
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
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Fulton J. Sheen
Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person...
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Kilroy J. Oldster
More Quotes By Pascal
Let us imagine a number of men in chains, and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows, and wait their turn, looking at...
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it is opinion that uses the force.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.
