Morality...Vices...EGO
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0908
“Reputation is a bubble which bursts when a man tries to blow it up for himself.” — Emma (Nunemacher) Carleton
EGO, Fame, Humility
0909 H
“The trouble with some self-made men is that they worship their creator.”
— Unknown
EGO, God, Individualism
0910 H
“Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.” — Josh Billings
EGO, Self-Confidence
0911
“The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
EGO, Humility
0912
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” — Thomas Carlyle
EGO, Excellence, Thought
0913
“There’s not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.” — William Shakespeare
EGO, Wisdom, Self-Confidence, Reward
0914 H
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” — Henry J. Kaiser
EGO, Bores, Reward
0915 H
“Don’t be ridiculous. I’ve never lost a battle.” — George Armstrong Custer (attributed)
EGO, Self-Confidence, Optimism, Winning, War & Peace
0916
“He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
EGO, Family & Friends
0917 HA
“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato - the only good
belonging to him is underground.” — Sir Thomas Overbury
EGO, Family & Friends
0918
“They are proud in their humility, proud that they are not proud.” — Robert Burton
EGO, Humility
0919 A
“Pride is to the character, like the attic to the house the highest part, and generally the most
empty.” — John Gay
EGO, Character
0920 A
“Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.” — Jewish Proverb
EGO, Self-Confidence
0921 P
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
EGO, Individualism
0922 C
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin
EGO, Love
0923 A
“Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would
improve.” — Alexander Pope
EGO, Love
0924 A
“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” — Sir John Denham
EGO, Love, Haste
0925 A
“A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons
whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.” — Jean de La Bruyere
EGO, Greed
0926 A
“Ambition’s like a circle on the water
Which never ceases to enlarge itself,
‘Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.” — William Shakespeare
EGO, Failure
0927
“It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” — Abraham Lincoln
EGO, Excellence
0928 C
“Everybody has two businesses - his own and show business.” — Eddie Cantor
EGO, Business, Speeches
EGO Cross-References
Fame—5 • Wealth—29, 36 •
Self-Confidence—204 • Errors—310, 316 • Failure—397 •
Attitude—409 • Knowledge—565 • Wisdom—577, 587 •
Judgment—670 • Humility—822-824, 827, 829-830, 832 •
God—986 • Faith—1008 • Authority—1114 •
Accountability—1159 • Reward—1212 • Individualism—1353 •
Change—1451, 1453
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