Quotes about Ego

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

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.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

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