Quotes about Ego
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
— Mark Twain
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother.
— Robert Frost
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
— Martin Luther
lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.
— Martin Luther
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
— Martin Luther
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one
— Joseph Campbell
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
— Muhammad Ali
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
— Muhammad Ali
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
— NT Wright
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
— Nikki Giovanni