Quotes About Ego

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

People have this preconceived notion of me. I'm 'Gob' to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.

What accounts for the appeal of energy talk? Perhaps trying to prove how much you know about the spiritual nature of life. Ironically, a person who's really in Enlightenment has absolutely nothing to prove.

NON-EMPATHS naturally put themselves first. They experience themselves in vivid color, brighter and more interesting than everyone else.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.

Many research findings show that most Americans already hold inflated opinions of themselves.

the higher your opinion of yourself, the more likely you are to get ego threats, and hence the more prone to violence you would be.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Having money, power, and respect pacifies the ego only temporarily and does nothing to relieve the deeper feeling of emptiness. We're all sold on this idea that wholeness can be bought, married into, or wished real hard for, but the more substantial definition of success requires a lot more than just worldwide recognition and acquiring things.

MOST PEOPLE'S IDEA OF WEALTH RELIES SOLELY ON HOW OTHER PEOPLE SEE THEM.

Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito

Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. There is no greatness there.

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

Sixth, the libertarian fancies that this world is a stage for the ego, with its appetites and self-assertive passions. But the conservative finds himself 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.