Quotes About Ego

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.

Most men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion. Vain

The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity

There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

But self-will is blind.

We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.

Me! I know I am! But I love hearing it.

The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

Husbands have tender egos, even if they garner their compliments from unlikely places.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important no matter your family background, political or social status and regardless of your of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches.

Self-importance is an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance. Now listen up, you are important. But, you are not too important or all-important. Yes! no human is indispensable. Thus, never feel too important or all-important regardless of your level of education/qualification/intelligence/wealth/riches/family background.

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.

Eu s? m? duc la zei? N-au decât s? vin? ei la mine!», i-a r?spuns Plotin discipolului s?u Amelius, care voia s?-l duc? la o ceremonie religioas?. La cine, în lumea creÅŸtin?, ai s? mai întâlneÅŸti un orgoliu de asemenea calitate?

Ako bi samo ose?aj taštine bio dovoljan za kanonizaciju, kakav bih tek svetac bio! Na vrhu hijerarhije svetaca!

Pobre del escritor que no cultive su megalomanía, que la vea menguar sin reaccionar. Pronto se dará cuenta de que uno no se vuelve normal impunemente.

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant.

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant, §

A man who has completely vanquished selfishness, who retains no trace of it whatever, cannot live longer than twenty-one days