39 Quotes About Egotistical

It’s easy to let your ego get out of control and take things too far. These quotes will help you learn humility and be less egotistical. Ego is a powerful force that can make us think we know everything, but it can also cause us to miss the big picture of things. Just as we can learn from others, we can also learn from our mistakes and others’ insights Read more

When we learn to put our egos aside and be humble, we become better people and better leaders.

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I'm everything that you're not. Ahmed Mostafa
In this story I am the poet You're the poetry.
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In this story I am the poet You're the poetry. Arzum Uzun
Don't feed your ego with my soul.
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Don't feed your ego with my soul. Arzum Uzun
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The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord with the entire world can a person distill happiness that flows from cultivating a state of mindfulness. Kilroy J. Oldster
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If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the...
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Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all. Craig D. Lounsbrough
In one way or another, every mission that I have...
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In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.
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Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don’t even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God’s plans undo what I’ve done that’s undoing me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the...
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Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such. Abhijit Naskar
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What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions? Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do Jay Woodman
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Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk. Anthon St. Maarten
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If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple. Shannon L. Alder
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When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. Criss Jami
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I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again."" You've never stopped loving yourself."" Because I'm amazing. G.A. Aiken
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Perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective. Jacob M. Held
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It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda. Criss Jami
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We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid? Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this. .. I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer. .. ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.) Gillian Flynn
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Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind. T.F. Hodge
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One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered. Criss Jami
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The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that. Not an artist in death, like Edmund Alfred Bickleigh, Esq. MRCS, LRCP. Francis Iles
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The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us. Kilroy J. Oldster
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An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it. Donna Lynn Hope
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If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for? Donna Lynn Hope
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I feel so trapped, by my ego. T. Scott McLeod
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A politician is a man in his natural state Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Politicians look for interests not people Bangambiki Habyarimana