Quotes About Ego

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.

Speeches of self-justification were seldom worthwhile for any but the speaker.

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

To set oneself above intellect is immediately to fall outside it.

I would give myself an A+.

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

Few things were as incalculable as men who were at once stupid and thin-skinned.

Like many arrogant men, Proyas thought his insults an extension of his honesty.

Stop being so... Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? I'm going with arrogant.

This isn't about you. Oh, it is, you coldhearted bastard. It is.

he had not the slightest idea who he was without praise, without steady advancement toward a degree and title, without organized competition for some elite goal?

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small. - Grady Adams - Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59

The given world dazzles with wonder, poetry, and purpose. The man-made world, on the other hand, is a perverse realm of ego and envy, where power-mad cynics make false idols of themselves and where the meek have no inheritance because they have gladly surrendered it to their idols in return not for lasting glory but for an occasional parade, not for bread but for the promise of bread.

I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.

Taciturnity sometimes could be a sign of a healthy ego that did not require constant gratification

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.