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Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

Placing mind and body in offering before the Lord, they conquer and eradicate egotism from within. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. (Qutoe by - Debord, Guy)

An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! (Qutoe by - Bierce, Ambrose)

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette. (Quote by - Gordon B. Hinckley)

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. (Quote by - Bellamy Brooks)

Cruelty, attachment, desire and egotism - there is great hunger in these, like the raging torrent of a wild stream. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. (Quote by - Madonna)

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. (Quote by - Anatole France)

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. . . . Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. (Quote by - Dean Acheson)

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)

The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average. (Quote by - Mark Leary)

Engrossed in egotism, the world perishes. Without the Guru, there is utter darkness. In emotional attachment to Maya, they have forgotten the Great Giver, the Giver of Peace. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness. (Quote by - Roger M'Ckuen)

The egotistical are engrossed in egotism, ensnared by the intellect of the mind. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)

The Pure Lord removes the filth of egotism, and we are honored in the True Court. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

I know perfectly well my own egotism. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

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