Ego

The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson

If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – Arnold Bennett

Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce

An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! – Ambrose Bierce

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. – Diana Black

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. – Edgar Cayce

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield

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. – E. M. Cioran

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What will the world be quite overturned when you die? – Epictetus

Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

Mastery passes often for egotism. – Johann von Goethe

The nice thing about egotists is that they dont talk about other people. – Lucille S. Harper

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. – George V. Higgins