Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained. — George Groves Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices…” — Kathleen Dowling Singh Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“What’s this ” “A needle.” “What should I do with it ” He’d walked right into it. Too easy. “Please use it… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“It’s alright. It’s okay if it’s about your ego. Sometimes it’s got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.” — Crystal Zevon Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“People who are drowning in a sea of problems and have lost all sense of self-worth often grasp at egotism and alienation… — Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Copy Share Image
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Our culture's response to egotism is as misguided as our approach to inadequacy. When people feel and act as if they're better… — Ellen Tadd Copy Share Image
“The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
