Quotes About Ego

Elena looked in her rearview mirror and tried on a sympathetic, we're-all-in-this-together smile. Meh. This part would be a pain in the ass. Cops and egos. Tough recipe. Add in a dollop of territorial bullshit and customary dick swinging plus the rarity of landing a single murder case let alone a double murder, and Elena expected a shitshow of epic proportions.

Most of us think we're more important than we really are, Charlie. The universe isn't watching. It mostly, for the most part, doesn't care.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents

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I went to sleep with the tape player whispering softly in my ears such ego-building epigrams as, 'You are better than everyone else and you know it, and people who don't know it had better watch out,' and 'They are all fools and if you were in charge things would be different, and why aren't you in charge, it's easy enough.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right

My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me

A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by pride, alone the prospects were too dark. Way too dark.

No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.

As with most people who are well raised, well educated, and financially secure, Dr. Tokai only thought of himself.

We tend to overrate our individual contribution to groups, which, bluntly put, tends to lead to an overblown

I became the man that I am in order to look down on people. That's why a doctor found a vaccine for smallpox, you know, not because he was interested in helping out all those sick people, but because he wanted to make all his doctor friends jealous.

Just as light is manifestion of itself and its other, that which is dark, and can only know itself by revealing that other, so too with the ego, which is only rrevealed to itself in so far as its other is revealed to it in the shape of something independent of it.

THEY ARE CHILDREN!' Mr Wallaker roared. 'They are not corporate products! What they need to acquire is not a constant massaging of the ego, but confidence, fun, affection, love, a sense of self-worth. They need to understand, now, that there will always – always – be someone greater and lesser than themselves, and that their self-worth lies in their contentment with who they are, what they are doing and their increasing competence in doing it.

We do not want to be seduced," Mrs. Ballard had once said, "into seeing who can bake the richest cake.")

A tangible object passes complete into my brain with the warmth of life upon it, and occupies the same place that it does in space; for, without egotism, the mind is as large as the universe.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.