Quotes About Ego

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

Where pride begins, love ceases.

When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.

All men love themselves.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

Before I go on stage, I pretend that everyone loves me.

When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.