S. Truett Cathy Quotes

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

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

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

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

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

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

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.