Quotes About Ego

If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o' maester's ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn't make it so.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.

We can perform service to others for a variety of reasons. We can do good deeds because of fear, guilt, or the desire to inflate our egos. But if we really want to be loving, if we truly wish to respond to the call of justice and freedom, we must first have the courage to look into our own emptiness. We must somehow even come to love it.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

A modest man never talks of himself.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

I would have praised you more had you praised me less.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.