Quotes about Ego

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.

Brands that position themselves as heroes unknowingly compete with their potential customers. Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. Regardless, the world revolves around us.

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

Self-seeking is self-destruction