Quotes About Ego

The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.

The point is, you had no way of knowing. But you decided it had to be about you.

A man's pride needs careful handling.

quanto mais você se tornar um conhecedor da gratidão, menos você será vítima do ressentimento, da depressão e do desespero. A gratidão funcionará como um elixir que gradualmente dissolverá a concha dura de seu ego - sua necessidade de possuir e controlar - e transformará você num ser generoso. O senso de gratidão produz uma verdadeira alquimia espiritual, torna-nos magnânimos - de almas grandes.

Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated Creator - hence his grandiosity.

Narcissists are said to be in love with themselves. But this is a fallacy. Narcissus is not in love with himself. He is in love with his reflection. There is a major difference between one's True Self and reflected-self.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.

Oh, please, spare me the male ego. I'm not repulsed by sex, and I can reach an orgasm as well as any woman. After all, there are fifty-seven erotic points on a woman's body. If a man can't find one of them, he needs a flashlight and a sex manual.

It's not whether you win or lose — but whether I win or lose.

We believe in ourselves in this narrow, limited, egoistic sense, as identified with the body and the lower mind. We are blind to any higher vision, any more ultimate selfhood, any more universal mind or consciousness. This belief in self in this sense is a fetter that has to be broken before we can enter the Stream and break through into a higher, wider dimension of being and consciousness.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.