Quotes About Ego

Self is the soul minus God.

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego.

I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.—Galatians 2:20

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.

No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

I'm not the kind of person to Google myself, because you'll find whatever you're looking for. If you want to read something that says you're the greatest actor that ever lived, if you want to find something that is pretty hurtful, you'll find it.

I'm extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I'm working towards making it true.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.