Egocentrism Quotes

To conceive of a god in one’s image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

Politicians look for interests not people

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one’s own life is about as productive as talking to one’s image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

A politician is a man in his natural state

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

T. Scott McLeod

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

Thomas L. Friedman

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

Anthon St. Maarten

A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.

lauren klarfeld

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

The presence or calling of God can be no reasons but the guidance of God because of His glorification.

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Aberjhani

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

The Nightvale Podcast

Biggest tragedy of life is when God ask us to glorify Him for our sakes but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.

What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Fulton J. Sheen