We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.
I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Self importance is man's greatest enemy.
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
There's simply too much fuss about myself.
This rascal ego must be obliterated.
In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be “lovers of themselves” (2 Tim. 3:2).
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
