Quotes About Ego

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

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

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

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

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.