Quotes About Ego

What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?

She brags that she once earned one

It's not focus, her lesser self whispered. It's selfishness. He doesn't think or care about anything that's not feeding his ego in that moment.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.

Samoljublje kvari i najve?e genije.

El orgullo nunca está lejos de la caída.

Rockefeller always felt uneasy about venting anger or making an egotistical show of protest, and he pretended to accept this demotion with equanimity.

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.

Cuando uno se libera del espejismo de la propia importancia, todo da menos miedo.

Ah, la vanidad del escritor... Podemos llegar a ser una auténtica peste. Quizá sea por nuestra especial dependencia de la mirada ajena, o porque la falta de criterios objetivos a la hora de juzgar una novela hace que siempre nos sintamos un poco inseguros, siempre un poco en el aire; pero lo cierto es que la vanidad es, para nosotros, como una droga dura, un chute de reconocimiento exterior que, como toda droga, nunca sacia la necesidad de aprobación que padecemos.

The divinity dwelling in man speaks when the soul recognizes itself as an ego." Just as the sentient and intellectual souls live in the outer world, so a third soul-principle is immersed in the divine when the soul becomes conscious of its own nature.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

think there is a great deal in you; but you must not become proud and you must not talk.

a fully flowered narcissist.

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Faith is that movement whereby we accept God's nearness, and his nearness must always mean the death of the ego.

But when people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think that you deserve it.

Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.

The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking.