Quotes About Ego

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Normally we try to avoid what we don't like. However, in a retreat, if we stay, we begin to see how our mental reactions actually make things harder or easier. The process highlights how opinionated and self-centered we are in familiar activities and how much we like to stay in comfortable routines. We resent being corrected as we make mistakes in learning the apparently arbitrary rules, and then we see how easily our egos are affronted.

One just had to admire his deluded self-confidence.

modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.

blaming others for their bad results and failing to give them credit for their good ones is under the influence of ego.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

One of the funny lines that Daniel Bryan said in a promo is that he made fun of me for driving in an SUV, and he asked why such a small man like myself needs to drive an SUV, but we're standing literally eye to eye, and I'm like, 'Ummm.'

I can excel in any situation, and like I've said, I'm not pro-WWE or anti-ECW - I'm pro-Edge. I don't care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Whenever the protagonist of the film becomes bigger than the hero of the film, the film is bound to become a hit.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

I don't like to be proved wrong.

everybody loves himself more than his neighbor.

Aren't you interested in anything except yourself? Not much.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.