Quotes About Ego

I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you.

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.

Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite. We become aware of ourselves, the more uncomfortable we are

Perhaps truth and humility go together; so many lies come from our pride

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

Arrogance is pride's calling card, and crowds everything with Self. Gratitude is humility's calling card, and is the space left inside for love.

Yoksulluk ve gurur, kan kardeÅŸ gibidir. Fakat sonunda mutlaka biri diÄŸerini öldürür.

every pedestal is taller than the man who sits on it.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write things that might be controversial. I've wasted a lot of time worrying about it: am I tough enough to do it? Well, I guess, or I wouldn't have done it. The day it's too difficult for me, I guess I'll stop.