Quotes about Ego

God save us from ever ending, though billions have./ The world is blanketed by foregone deaths,/ small beads of ego, bright with appetite,/ whose pin-sized prick of light winked out,/ bequeathing Earth a jagged coral shelf/ unseen beneath the black unheeding waves.

Talent is God-given: be humble. Fame is man-given: be thankful. Conceit is self-given: be careful.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis