Quotes About Ego

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.