Quotes about Ego

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.