Quotes About Ego

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

the industry found no shortage of ambitious collaborations eager to show what humans are capable of when shame and mercy are removed from the list of ground rules.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

when we have every right (after all it's "our church"), when we have always done it that way (no reason to change if we like it), and when we are in prominent positions (we have earned it), we can easily make it about us.

We are all prone to think first of ourselves and when we find an individual interested in us we are interested in him, but if he is interested in himself first, seldom do we find him interesting. Then, how it must come home to us, "know ye not that I must be about my Fathers business?" if we would have Him interested in us.

For, as in the material world ye find that ye do not gather figs from thistles, neither in the mental world may one think hate and find love in one's bosom; neither in the spiritual realm may one entertain the desire for ego to express irrespective of others and find the beauty of the spiritual thinking life.

An empty man is full of himself.

Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.

being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

The Self is the ordering and unifying center of the total psyche (conscious and unconscious) just as the ego is the center of the conscious personality. Or, put in other words, the ego is the seat of subjective identity while the Self is the seat of objective identity. The Self is thus the supreme psychic authority and subordinates the ego to it. The Self is most simply described as the inner empirical deity and is identical with the imago Dei.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

For men to search their own glory is not glory.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!

Never fight fire from ego.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

A gold medal is a nice thing — but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't.

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.