Ego Centric Quotes & Sayings

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite. — Napoleon Hill

To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation — Sunday Adelaja

There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle. — Crowder

Don't go to church for your ego-centric reasons — Sunday Adelaja

Fiddler briefly wondered about those three dragons - where they had gone, what tasks awaited them - then he shrugged. Their appearance, their departure and, in between and most importantly, their indifference to the four mortals below was a sobering reminder that the world was far bigger than that defined by their own lives, their own desires and goals. The seemingly headlong plunge this journey had become was in truth but the smallest succession of steps, of no greater import than the struggles of a termite.
The worlds live on, beyond us, countless unravelling tales.
In his mind's eye he saw his horizons stretch out on all sides, and as they grew ever vaster he in turn saw himself as ever smaller, ever more insignificant.
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ... — Steven Erikson

You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere. — Richard Rohr

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A man always has a choice — Lorraine Heath

There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play ... The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all. — Henry Miller

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews. — Yair Lapid

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within. — Cynthia Dougherty-Bernal

You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart. — John De Ruiter