Quotes About Ego

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.

Now, I'm ridiculously attached to my head, seeing that it seems to go rather well with my shoulders.

Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly.

The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. As soon as you let go of it, pride shrinks to the size of a fly, but one that has no head, and no tail, and no wings with which to lift itself off the ground.

The grandiose person is never really free; first, because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect

I have been incredibly lucky, he said. Lucky in my life. Oh, I know some people would not say so. They'd say I hadn't stuck with anything, or that I hadn't made any money. They'd say I wasted that time when I was down-and-out. But that's not true. I heard the call, he said, raising his eyebrows, half smiling at himself. Seriously. I did. I heard the call to get out of the box. Out of the got-to-do-something-big box. Out of the ego box.

It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world

There's something in all of us that wants a medal for what we have done. That wants to be appreciated.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.