Quotes about Ego
The truth is this: Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
— Andrew Murray
It is pride that made redemption needful; it is from our pride we need above everything to be redeemed.
— Andrew Murray
For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, that every one thinks he has a good reason for exalting himself and despising all others in comparison.
— John Calvin
The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.
— John Calvin
As soon as there was two there was pride
— John Donne
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
— St. Jerome
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
— Karl Barth
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
— Rick Warren
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
— Francis de Sales
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
— John Ortberg