Quotes About Ego

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.