Quotes About Ego

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

As soon as there was two there was pride

Sometimes, it takes just a moment free of fear, judgment, and ego to allow you the space to make the best, most impactful parenting decisions.

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.