Quotes about Ego
How much of our energy goes into defining ourselves by deciding "I am what I do," "I am what others say about me," or "I am what I have"? When that's the case, life often follows a repetitive up-and-down motion.
— Henri Nouwen
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
— Jimmy Carter
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.
— Michael Horton
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.
— Marcus Aurelius
Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.
— Marcus Aurelius