Quotes About Ego

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Any top-level athlete, it's always the same. There's always that hint of arrogance there... It's hard to be humble when you're the best.

All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

I'm famously humble.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

A lot of people think I'm cocky or arrogant but I'm really just chill and cool and humble.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.

Am I cocky or conceited? I'm definitely cocky. But at the root is confidence and humility.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

But in this case people have hundreds and hundreds of animals, they have a menagerie. You can't possibly love that many animals. So, it's more about the ego and the pride of having all of these things sort of like a car collection or a gun collection.

People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

I just figured you'd be too proud. Self-conscious and proud." I was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits

The main hindrance is one's own antagonistic frame of mind. All the systems of Yoga in India and every form of religious discipline, worship, or prayer is designed to overcome the barriers posed by the overcritical intellect, by dogma, skepticism, ego, pride, and other recalcitrant traits of the mind.

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.

of all this world's creatures, the author is the vainest