Quotes about Ego
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.
— Michael Horton
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.
— Marcus Aurelius
Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.
— Marcus Aurelius
The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.
— Marcus Aurelius
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
— Margaret Atwood
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
— Margaret Atwood
In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
— Margaret Atwood
When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.
— Craig Groeschel