Quotes About Ego

One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.

The pleasure of slandering yourself greatly exceeds that of being slandered.

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?

In reverencing wealth we reverence not a man, but an appendix to a man.

It is in the nature of those who have never been told "no" to think that the universe is there for their own benefit.

This chatterer believed himself an orator.

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Susan B. Anthony. "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do," she once said, "because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.

I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

No one recognizes their faults or their virtues when these are stated by another, any more than they recognize their own voices on a tape recorder. The world transmits back to us only the asymmetric form of our vices, as a mirror reflects back the asymmetric form of our faces.

I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.