Quotes about Ego
People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.
- Joyce Meyer
If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It
- Joyce Meyer
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
- Washington Allston
Some people hold on to a position or title for dear life; they hold on so tight, in fact, that they sabotage their own lives in the process.
- Darlene Zschech
Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment
- James Bryan Smith
A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.
- James MacDonald
Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.
- James Carse
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
- Aesop
Pride goes before destruction.
- Aesop
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
- Aesop
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
- Ellen White
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
- Thomas a Kempis