Quotes about Ego
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
- Alice Walker
There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.
- Alice Walker
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
- Ezra Taft Benson
[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
- Anonymous
For men to search their own glory is not glory.
- Anonymous
Never fight fire from ego.
- Anonymous
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
- Anonymous
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.
- Anonymous
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
- Anonymous
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
- John Maxwell
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
- Frank Herbert