Quotes about Ego

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.