Quotes about Ego
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
— Ellen White
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
— Thomas Monson
No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
— CS Lewis
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
— George Washington
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
— Mahatma Gandhi
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah
— Paulo Coelho