Quotes about Ego
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
- Ellen White
A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
- William Law
No man is great if he thinks he is.
- Will Rogers
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
- John Calvin
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
- Livy
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
- Napoleon Hill
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
- John Owen
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
- Samuel Johnson
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
- Charles Spurgeon