Quotes About Ego

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

The only time I had an ego is I when wanted to have a reverse Undertaker record at WrestleMania, and they messed it up!

I came out of my mother's womb wanting to be a professional wrestler. But then notoriety and stardom happened, and I started getting cocky.

The best wrestler in the world is me.

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.

The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

Only bad writers think they're good.