Quotes About Ego

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

Mine is better than ours.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

From self alone expect applause.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

We've got to learn how to trust ourselves and dare to acknowledge what we really feel. We've got to learn how to trust that God is in the mix and that we are a part of God. We've got to learn how to trust each other to do the right thing because it's the right thing. We've got to learn how to trust in the process of life and surrender our inflated human egos. Because

We must fill our minds with a truth loud enough to drown our the incessant defeatist voice of the negative ego.