Quotes About Ego

It is a common failing of men. They see someone they consider beautiful and desirable and eligible, and they imagine that they love her. In fact, though, they love themselves reflected in her eyes.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.

That hurts my pride, Watson.

Svaka budala na?e još ve?u budalu od sebe koja joj se divi!

there is nothing so tedious like the self-righteousness of a young man.

At the level of ego-psychology', wrote Mowrer in his survey on 'Motivation' in the Annual Review for 1952, 'there may be said to be only one master motive: anxiety.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

what every one most aims at in ordinary contact with his fellows is to prove them inferior to himself ...

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud;

Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology

la vanità cerca l'applauso degli altri per costruirci sopra un'alta opinione di sé, è presupposto della superbia che quella esista fin da principio

Ihmiselle ylittämätöntä on hänen turhamaisuutensa tyydyttäminen. Mikään vamma ei koske häneen niin kuin turhamaisuutensa kokema kolaus.

Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence, he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself — so long as other people leave him alone.

The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.

They were not ministering to God but to the pride of their own hearts.

An Urdu couplet by one of his favorite poets, Mir Taqi Mir: Jis sar ko ghurur aaj hai yaan taj-vari ka Kal uss pe yahin shor hai phir nauhagari ka The head which today proudly flaunts a crown Will tomorrow, right here, in lamentation drown.

It did not take long here to realize that some had come just to be seen

He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE

I was drunk from the attention

I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.