I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!
Wherever I am, I think it's my show.
Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.
It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.
A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.
How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.
To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.
Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.
The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.
