Quotes About Ego

That's one of the worst things about living with brilliant people—they're so used to being right they don't really have experience being anything else.

ecological self"—a term author Joanna Macy uses to describe one who has conquered the personal ego and knows that she or he is not separate from anything else.

Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that's authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.

She grinned. "You don't have to go to the gym, do you? Carrying around that ego is enough of a workout." "It keeps me in shape.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.

repression, which "proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression" (1914c, pp. 93-94).

Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part of the id's destructiveness through the superego.

The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.   And

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

My humbleness ranks among the greatest in the world."

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

As the psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison writes, "There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that, compared to 'normal' individuals, artists, writers, and creative people in general are both psychologically 'sicker'—that is, they score higher on a wide variety of measures of psychopathology—and psychologically healthier (for example, they show quite elevated scores on measures of self-confidence and ego strength)

Were all gentlemen so competitive that they wanted to win, regardless of the prize?

Yo soy Etchenike. Si le hubiera dicho que era Robert Redford o el mismísimo San Puta, el efecto no habría sido mayor.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and therefore must perform at a superior level.

If you notice that you have a strong desire to be right, try not venturing an opinion the next time someone else expresses one.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.