Self-importance Quotes

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.