Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

If you ask all the players who have played with me, they will never say anything wrong about me.

Welcome to the church of me.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

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.

Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of picturing his own face while he climaxed. He hadn't denied it, either, and next time he'd slept with her, he'd made sure to scream, "Strider" at the pivotal moment." --Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat--

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

I always thought I was the finest thing around.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan

You're a legend in your own mind.