Quotes About Ego

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I'd always rather be a jerk than a loser.

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything - and I will - but I've been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.

From time to time, I'm a jerk.

Everyone wants to be liked. It's a basic human impulse for some of you, and that explains the turn-on-a-dime hypocrisy from people like Jim Carrey and Sean Penn.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.

the promotion of self-esteem enabled not human potential but a crippling narcissism, indeed, a narcissism that he felt had come to characterize American society as a whole.

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do we not love each other enough, or do we love ourselves too much!

La soberbia nunca baja de donde sube, porque siempre cae de donde subió.

se te olvide, mi hijito, que mientras más importante te sientas en la vida, más pendejo serás…

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Man's desire to be remembered is colossal.

Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority list as finding a cockroach in their coffee. The typical scientist has made an interesting discovery early on in his or her career, followed by a lifetime of making sure that everyone else admires his or her contribution and that no one questions it. There is no poorer company than an aging scientist who has failed to achieve these objectives.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.