Quotes about Ego
Brands that position themselves as heroes unknowingly compete with their potential customers. Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. Regardless, the world revolves around us.
— Donald Miller
The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.
— Lysa TerKeurst
People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.
— Lysa TerKeurst
To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.
— John Eldredge
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
— Mae West
If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.
— John Ortberg
God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.
— John Ortberg
What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.
— Will Rogers
Self-seeking is self-destruction
— James Allen
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
— Samuel Johnson
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
— Max Lucado
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
— St. Augustine