Quotes about Ego
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
- Khalil Gibran
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
- Paulo Coelho
Your wisdom should be without pride.
- St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
- CS Lewis
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
- Oscar Wilde
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
- John Calvin
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
- Aristotle
Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.
- Charles Swindoll
In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles
- Neil Anderson
We tell ourselves, It's important to get a sense of what people are saying about me.' But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you.
- Bowen Yang
Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
- Milan Kundera
How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?
- Milan Kundera