Quotes About Ego

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

I am the hero of Africa.

Every man is a hero to his alias.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

The one principle of hell is – "I am my own

There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self—God's idea of us when he devised us—the Christ in us. Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which, most of us are so fond and proud. And that self no man can find for himself; seeing of himself he does not even know what to search for. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.

For our Selves will always do pretty well if we don't pay them too much attention. Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.

There is one kind of religion in which the more devoted a man is, the fewer proselytes he makes: the worship of himself.

I never heard of her loving anybody but herself, and I do not think she could have managed that if she had not somehow got used to herself.

There are who never learn to see anything except in its relation to themselves, nor that relation except as fancied by themselves; and, this being a withering habit of mind, they keep growing drier, and older, and smaller, and deader, the longer they live--thinking less of other people, and more of themselves and their past experience, all the time as they go on withering.

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.

The injunction is not to hide what you do from others, but to hide it from yourself. The Master would have you not plume yourself upon it, not cherish the thought that you have done it, or confer with yourself in satisfaction over it. You must not count it to your praise. A man must not desire to be satisfied with himself. His right hand must not seek the praise of his left hand.

Ourselves our centre instead of God, is the source of all wrong and all misery.

kill the peddling creature we so wrongly call our self.

I developed a theory of salesmanship based on the principle that one must not on any account identify oneself with the merchandise one is selling. Selling is a game where you score when you make a sale. If you allow your ego to be involved, the customer can brush you off and you lose; but if you do not identify yourself with your work you will be able to redouble your efforts when you are rejected, and if you make a sale you come out the winner.

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.