Quotes About Ego

Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.

Voulez-vous qu'on pense et qu'on dise du bien de vous, n'en dites point vous-même

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

I think in Trump's view of the world, when the other person loses, he wins.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I've never wished for people to recognise me or anything.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

My mother always told me never offend a man's ego and never hurt a woman's emotions - an advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.