Quotes About Ego

It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.