Quotes about Ego

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

For men to search their own glory is not glory.

Never fight fire from ego.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

Caution: If you're a person who will one day mentor others, I have a sobering warning. If your ego hasn't been annihilated by the cross of Jesus Christ, you will end up becoming a Saul in the lives of those who are just as (or more) gifted than you are. And when God begins to elevate them in His service, you will go insane.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.