Quotes About Ego

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

The one consistent thing about psychopaths was their ego. They never imagined getting caught because they believed they were smarter than everyone.

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.

Whenever you employ your ego to identify yourself as the doer of an action, that action becomes a karma for you.

The only sin is pride.

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

All love, ultimately, is self-love.

He might have derived a much needed ego-boost from her unabashed pursuit of him, were it not for the fact that he found her combination of entitlement and neediness thoroughly unattractive.

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

purely to get to you, do you?' said Strike. 'Your fucking ego… The only negative thing about her I could see was that she knew your fucking stepbrother.

Man's ability to indulge in self-deception knows no bounds.

But I had learned a lesson about the overwhelming need of narcissists to be in the right, and to punish those by whom they feel slighted.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.