Egotism/Humility

People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.

-- Satya Sai Baba

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

-- Margaret Halsey

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed

-- Kate Halverson

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

-- Lucille S. Harper

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

-- Carl Gustav Jung

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

-- H. L. Mencken

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

-- Olin Miller

I would have made a good Pope.

-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Colin Powell

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