Quotes About Ego

I'm not just the best in NXT; I'm not just the best in the WWE: I'm the best on the freaking planet.

Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!

I think Ronda's biggest fear was losing to me, so if we were to do it in WWE, she would have to win. I don't have such a big ego, but if we were to put on a show for the fans, something like that, no problem.

In the NFL, you're part of a team. You work together to win. Being a WWE Superstar is all about me. No team. I'm special.

I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.

Politicians live in mortal terror of ever saying they are sorry about anything, because that would suggest they have been wrong. It is often a trait of powerful people not to want to be seen to back down.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

She's out of order." We laughed again. "Someone needs to tell her that the Earth—that's you—revolves around the sun. That's me.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.

The Dalai Lama has warned: 'Too many people have the Dharma only on their lips. Instead of using the Dharma to destroy their own negative thoughts, they regard the Dharma as a possession and themselves as the owner.

If all the harms Fears and sufferings in the world Arise from self-grasping, What need have I for such a great evil spirit?

what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest;

Notre société est vouée presque exclusivement au culte de l'ego et à ses tristes fantasmes de réussite et de pouvoir ; elle célèbre les forces mêmes d'avidité et d'ignorance qui sont en train de détruire notre planète.

the only thing that Tonglen could harm is the one thing that has been harming you the most: your own ego, your self-grasping, self-cherishing mind, which is the root of suffering.

Así pues, el ego es la carencia de un verdadero conocimiento sobre quiénes somos en realidad, junto con su consecuencia: el inexorable aferramiento, que está condenado al fracaso, a una imagen de nosotros mismos improvisada y hecha de remiendos, un yo inevitablemente camaleónico y charlatán que no cesa de cambiar constantemente para mantener viva la ficción de su existencia.

Aunque fuéramos capaces de advertir las mentiras del ego, nos asusta demasiado abandonarlo. Sin un verdadero conocimiento de la naturaleza de nuestra mente, de nuestra verdadera identidad, no tenemos otra alternativa. Una y otra vez nos rendimos a sus exigencias con la misma tristeza y autodesprecio con que el alcohólico acude a la bebida que sabe que lo está destruyendo, o el drogadicto a la droga que, tras un breve rato de euforia, lo dejará rendido y desesperado.

Sem is the discursive, dualistic, thinking mind, which can only function in relation to a projected and falsely perceived external reference point.

Seen from one angle, sem is flickering, unstable, grasping, and endlessly minding others' business; its energy consumed by projecting outwards.

One difference between spiritual and ego law is that spiritual law is very playful and creative, while ego law is fixed and routine.