C. J. Mahaney Quotes

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

I think the concept of ego has kind of taken over for a lot of people in our industry.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Very thinly-veiled self glorification.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.