149 Quotes About Self-centered

I possess the rather amazing ability to cure the need to ever be cured again. And I can do that simply by claiming the ability to cure myself. For in doing so, it won’t be long before I won’t be around to be cured.

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

One of the greatest feats that I can accomplish is to realize how great I am not.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

If I am both actor and audience, I probably made the play about myself. And if I did, it’s going to have a very short run.

To give our lives over to the pursuit of making our greed look like it’s something other than greed so that we can feel good about not being good is to find ourselves in the pursuit of one of the greediest things imaginable.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.