149 Quotes About Self-centered

The ego is the thing that kills itself out of the effort to feed itself while telling itself that neither is true.

Making it ‘all about me’ is making it all about no one else. And if I stop long enough to look around, I suddenly realize that a lot of ‘me’ without a lot ‘no one else’ is not a lot of anything.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald Reagan, self-aggrandizement has been the full-throated cry of this society: "I've got mine, so why don't you get yours" and "What's in it for me?

The appetite of my ego always exceeds the grocery store of my soul.

If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.

Man has become like a bird in a cage – he is trapped in the cage of self-centeredness.

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

If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.

The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.