Ego Pride Quotes

#1. The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

Stephen Covey

#2. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#4. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Matthew Kelly

#5. Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

Yvonne Pierre

#6. You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.

Tiger Woods

#7. Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don't go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

Lisa Bedrick

#8. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.

Stuart Wilde

#11. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#12. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Criss Jami

#13. Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

Hamza Yusuf

#14. Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Brad Moore

#15. There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into

Rajesh Nanoo

#17. It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

Sathya Sai Baba

#18. my ego and pride holds me back from loving you to the fullest

Acha Salim

#19. Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.

Criss Jami

#20. 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.

Richard Foster

#21. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Criss Jami

#22. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. A sinner's humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God's forgiveness again and again.

Joyce L. Villeneuve

#24. The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Anthony Liccione

#25. Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

Paul Brunton

#26. Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Dada Bhagwan

#27. He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

T. J. Stiles

#28. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#29. Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

Emily O'Beirne

#30. Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

Marion Woodman

#31. One' is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is 'charging' (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, "I did this samayik, I did these activities", he will 'charge' (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival.

Susan Ee

#33. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

#34. The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

Robert H. Schuller

#35. Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

Joel Edgerton

#36. Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness
one that I believe is found in all living creatures.

Mary Alice

#37. Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#38. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#39. The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

Criss Jami

#40. Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

Helen Fielding

#41. Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

#42. Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#43. Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Criss Jami

#44. A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#45. Pride entices us to favor people who build up our egos. Everyone wants to feel accepted and loved. The best way to rid your life of pride is to surround yourself with people who care for you for the right reasons and not just to stroke your ego. Pride is

Charles F. Stanley

#46. You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Brian Weiss

#47. I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.

Shalane Flanagan

#48. The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

Emile M. Cioran

#49. The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

Criss Jami

#50. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Shepard Fairey

#52. Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

T.F. Hodge

#53. There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

Criss Jami

#54. Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Rick McCallum

#55. The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

Dada Bhagwan

#56. Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.

Dada Bhagwan

#57. Pride is unstable because other people are absentmindedly or intentionally treating the proud man's ego with less reverence than he thinks it deserves.

Timothy Keller

#58. I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead,

Ray Kroc

#59. We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

#60. I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.

Dee Remy

#61. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

Criss Jami

#62. Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

A.J. Darkholme

#63. No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Criss Jami

#64. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Kellie Elmore

#65. Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'!

T.F. Hodge

#66. When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#67. Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Sathya Sai Baba

#68. Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

Maureen Corrigan

#69. My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It

Muhammad Ali

#71. Pride can be friend, ego can be foe ... depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

T.F. Hodge

#72. I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride ... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

Matthew Ashford

#73. Your ego decides the humanity in you ...
Higher the ego lesser the humanity ...

Adil Adam Memon

#74. Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

Naveen Rajeev

#75. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

Eve Ensler

#76. The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

Dada Bhagwan

#77. We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Anthony Liccione

#78. Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

Criss Jami

#79. Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#80. 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

#81. Neither the world nor one's actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!

Dada Bhagwan

#82. Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,
Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;
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Munindra Misra

#83. All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#84. The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

T.F. Hodge

#85. Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?

Girdhar Joshi

#86. Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

A.J. Darkholme

#87. Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#88. Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.

Eric Christopher Jackson

#89. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#90. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

#91. Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Swami Vivekananda

#92. Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

Henry Cloud

#93. #ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.

Abigail Tarttelin

#94. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

#95. One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.

Louise Penny