Best Ego Centric Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

“One of the biggest abuses of intelligence is to believe that if you have enough of it you can reinvent the truth. Stupidity believes the same thing.”

Truth Stupid Lies Intelligence Stupidity Arrogance Delusional Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is everything that it says it’s not.”

Lies Greed Selfish Denial Greedy Self Centered Distortions Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.”

God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Bible Greed Biblical Vocation Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be my own god is to spend my life pretending that I am what I am not. But how do I pretend that such pretending isn’t destroying my life?”

God Wisdom Christian Jesus Stupid Bible Pretending Narcissistic Ego Centric Faking Foolish

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is the thief of the soul.”

Soul Greed Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Thief Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People think that saving their pride is worth something. But it's not. Plenty of faces have been saved at the expense of murdered hearts. You need a heart to be alive; a face can't do that for you.”

Life Philosophy Pride Ego Living Well Living Your Best Life Ego Quotes Pride Quotes Ego Centric

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“To live unto oneself never involves living.”

Life Self Living Selfish Selfishness Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To live ‘for’ myself is to live ‘by’ myself. And do I really want to do that ‘to’ myself?”

Self Living Greed Selfish Live Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”

Self God Christian Jesus Selfish Narcissistic Self Destruction Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If life is always my party, I’ll never need to order much food.”

Self Party Food Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be assured that whatever it is, there will be nothing ‘in it for me’ if I approach it from the perspective of ‘what’s in it for me.”

Self Ego Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m the only person at my party it’s probably because the party is about one person. And if it’s only about one person, it’s not a party.”

Self Party Selfish Selfishness Greedy Person Narcissistic Egotistical Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”

Self Sacrifice Selfish Surrender Greedy Self Centered Cause Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Selfishness is hunkering down into our own little worlds because we fear that the vastness of the person standing next to us will call out the vastness of the person living within us.”

Self Humanity Fear Selfishness Frightened Self Understanding Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Selfish Rescue Self Centered Save Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.”

“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”

Self Self Love Ego Lonely Greed Selfish Alone Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric Fan Stadium

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

Loneliness Ego Lonely Empty Selfish Abandoned Isolated Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.”

Men God Christian Jesus Sin Christianity Greatness Ego Jesus Christ Greed Arrogance Great Narcissism Restraint Stubborn Calamity Egotistical Ego Centric Restrain

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My life expended in the service of my life becomes something so terribly narrow that the value of my existence outside of my existence has no value. But if I dare to make myself a servant to others, I have made myself of value to everyone.”

Giving Sacrifice Hero Selfish Gift Servant Selfless 911 Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Undoubtedly, the loneliest person on the planet is that individual who has successfully lived out their lives making their lives all about their lives. And while that might seem rather sad to most of us, at least they’ll feel that they’re in good company.”

Ego Lonely Selfish Alone Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am the main character in my story, the script will be palpably shallow and the character development will be anything but compelling.”

Character Fiction Ego Selfish Selfishness Story Shallow Non Fiction Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Truth is not something I create to serve my agenda. Rather, truth is something created to save me from my agenda.”

Reality Truth Honest Integrity Selfish Selfishness Truthful Agenda Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.”

Values Freedom Ethics Greed Selfishness Morals License Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Arrogance is when my mouth is moving but my words are not.”

Attitude Words Selfish Arrogance Mouth Ego Centric Prideful

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Self Esteem Humility Ego Selfish Narcissism Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.”

God Christian Jesus Answers Christianity Solutions Stubbornness Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

God Wisdom Christian Universe Jesus Arrogance Narcissism Foolishness Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”

Death Reading History Ego Greed Selfish Self Centered Narcissist Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.”

Choices Greed Foolish Superficial Desires Consequences Self Centered Wants Ego Centric Lusts

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Have we traded the good of mankind for the agenda of our kind?”

Politics Mankind Greed Deception Manipulation Agenda Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To win at all costs is to lose at any cost.”

Winning Losing Greed Selfish Win Lose Blinded Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sacrifice is the giving of self so that I don’t die in the service of self.”

Giving Sacrifice Selfish Priorities Servant Die Self Centered Ego Centric Servanthood

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Ego Praise Selfish Adoration Self Centered Narcissistic Insecurities Ego Centric Fan Acclimation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have no wish to stand amidst the accolades of men, even should millions of them shout my name in adoration. Instead, I would rather bow in the audience of God without a single man knowing that to be happening.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Praise Selfish Selfless Adoration Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.”

Belief Sacrifice Conviction Selfish Self Centered Self Sacrifice Agenda Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How many times do we have to repeat a failed strategy before it dawns on us that it’s a failed strategy? The answer, I think, depends on the size of our ego and the depth of our arrogance.”

Wise Failure Pride Ego Strategy Foolish Arrogance Narcissism Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is in attempting to solve all of my problems on my own that I end up creating some of the greatest problems that I’ll ever own.”

Ego Solutions Independent Problems Naive Self Centered Brash Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.”

Understanding Fool Arrogance Confused Deluded Ego Centric Limited Prideful Legitimate Confining

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To gorge ourselves on everything is to walk away with nothing. And maybe that’s part of the reason why we’re always hungry for something.”

Greed Selfish Hungry Selfishness Entitled Self Centered Ego Centric Thirsting

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Power for the sake of power serves no one, including the one wielding it.”

Politics Power Abuse Corruption Misuse Ego Centric Undermine

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Entitlement is the shovel that digs a grave of greed. And there are those of us who stand at the bottom of such a grave having thrown out the last shovel full of dirt, never realizing that the grave that we’ve dug is our own until the same shovel suddenly starts backfilling the hole.”

Greed Selfishness Dirt Self Destruction Sabotage Grave Ego Centric Shovel

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I had never before considered that people near me might have problems that were not caused by me. I had been created to please people. If the people around me weren't happy, I must be doing something wrong. Lynn helped me see that I lacked the power to make other people feel anything.”

Ego Centric Child Abuse Survivor People Pleasing People Pleaser Making Others Happy Not About You Other People S Happiness All My Fault

Book:The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

“Being my own cause is to position the world around me so that the entirety of it would be at my disposal. And if there’s one way to rather quickly and efficiently dispose of my life, this would be it.”

World Greed Selfish Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric Dispose

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Try to be a god and see if you’ve got enough divinity within yourself to save yourself from the mess that you’ll make just by thinking about doing it, much less the mess you’ll make if you actually attempt it.”

God Ego Divinity Idols Narcissism Self Centered Egotistical Ego Centric Inflated Ego

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The evidence for God rests in the fact that we’ve assumed ourselves to be Him.”

God Reality Christian Jesus Evidence Fact Ego Centric Assume

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Facts can be ignored, but they can’t be avoided.”

Facts Reality Truth Selfish Ignore Avoid Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough