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Definition of Self-Importance
Self-importance

An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit.

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Self-Importance Quotations

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.
Thomas Szasz

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

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

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


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