Quotes About Ego

He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great.

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.

Your ego is your strictest judge.

And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.

His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man's spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.

Architects are servants, not leaders. They are not to assert their little egos, but to express the soul of their country and the rhythm of their time. They are not to follow the delusions of their personal fancy, but to seek the common denominator, which will bring their work close to the heart of the masses. Architects -ah, my friends, theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is not to command, but to be commanded.

beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw their sweat in their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't—doesn't live at all.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark in his speech at his trial.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark to Gail Wynand

Be inspired but not proud.

Don't you know who I am? I'm an individual!           I

I recognized that in running for Congress I'd been driven not by some selfless dream of changing the world, but rather by the need to justify the choices I had already made, or to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy of those who had achieved what I had not.

man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique ego down.

Exposure to an unusually spectacular place in conducive circumstance, the thinking goes, can release one from the prison of one's own ego and initiate a renewed awareness of the wondrous, salutary, and informing nature of the Other, the thing outside of the self.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common

To go beyond the ego's model of the world, the lucid dreamer must relinquish control of the dream—surrender—to something beyond the ego.

the poet Rainer Maria Rilke surmised, "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."[4] In Jung's view the presence of shadow figures in dreams indicates that the ego model of the self is incomplete. When the ego intentionally accepts the Shadow, it moves toward wholeness and healthy psychological functioning.

When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.

The crazed Argentine was far more concerned with people worshiping him than protecting the faith.

Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can't be wounded. Spirit can't be wounded.