Quotes About Ego

Fine, then, stay here and keep our seats warm while your ass expands to the size of your ego. (Todd)

Being an arrogant braggart just doesn't work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Life's all about 'me' anyway

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

It would appear that what is required is a kind of cultural ego death, more profoundly shattering (a word that many abductees use when they acknowledge the actuality of their experiences) than the Copernican revolution which demonstrated that the earth, and therefore humankind, did not reside at the center of the cosmos.

There is no need to stand for what is right. People are entitled to their own opinion and they are right in their own way. By choosing to be kind, you avoid the conflict of explaining why you are right. You are only feeding your ego for justifying the reasons why you are right. Choosing to be kind means accepting the reasons why people do what they do. By living your life in this manner, you drive away hostility and

don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

Why do I always have to be right?

It's just amazing the lengths people go to, to be thought of as special.

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.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.