Billy Graham Quotes

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

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.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

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

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

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

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

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

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Egos turn me off, big time.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.