Quotes About Ego

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Sexuality is the only finite game in which the winner's prize is the defeated opponent.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he ought to be President; he has no doubt whatever about that." These two unfortunate tendencies, Lincoln explained, had made Chase "irritable, uncomfortable, so that he is never perfectly happy unless he is thoroughly miserable.

Such men of "towering" egos, in whom ambition is divorced from the people's best interests, were not men to lead a democracy; they were despots.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

What deep insecurity, what inadequacy, does this insistence on other people's inferiority conceal?

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Rubbish, we don't want to be happy, we want to be famous! (Lunkwill)

And you saw yourself, said Gargravarr, in relation to it all? Oh, yeah yeah. But...what did you experience? Zaphod shrugged smugly. It just told me what I knew all the time. I'm a really terrific and great guy. Didn't I tell you, baby, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Zaphod glared at her again, then laughed.

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

Conceited little megapuppy.

My name is not important

there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

You are not your body.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he will ever be.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Are you surprised? He doesn't believe in any power greater than himself. And we all know he's God-like anyway—in his own mind, at least.

man and ape are separated more by ego than anatomy