Ego And Pride Quotes:

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Fear, Failure, Inspirational Death, Stanford University

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Mistake, Humility, Ego And Pride, Everybody Makes Mistakes

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

- John Ruskin

topic: Pride, Someone You Love, Useless, Ego And Pride, Sin Of Pride

You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Mistake, Pride, Keys, Big Picture, Ego And Pride

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Pride, People, Sorrow, Ego And Pride, Emily

Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

topic: Heart, Pride, People, Less Fortunate, Ego And Pride

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

topic: Pride, Guy, Ego, Ego And Pride, Testosterone

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

- Matthew Ashford

topic: Kids, Pride, Laughing, Ego And Pride, Really Dumb

In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

- Mary Cunningham Agee

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Business, Ego And Pride, Business School