Quotes About Ego

Vanity is but the surface.

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

The ego (one's self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those drives for a while and feel like a capable, rational subject, but eventually they will reveal themselves in the form of idiosyncratic behaviour, slips of the tongue, even illnesses. The perception that one can craft an identity by copying that of someone else has created particular problems in today's society.

A tí que duermes con tu orgullo y te dejas tocar por tu rencor barato

Se mataban, entonces, entre ellos, estos señores, para probarse que eran caballeros argentinos y hombres de honor, con lo cual los caballeros argentinos y los hombres de honor disminuían.

Without getting too psychoanalytical about it, the reason we are tempted to put others down, correct them, or show them how we're right and they're wrong is that our ego mistakenly believes that if we point out how someone else is wrong, we must be right, and therefore we will feel better.

One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, "Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?" Many times, the two are mutually exclusive!

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

His fame seemed to him a failure of perception on the part of others.

Overconfidence is a powerful force.

is a thin line between having enough self-confidence and being overconfident. I suppose the difference is whether you succeed or fail; when you win you are strong-willed, and when you lose you are stubborn!

Gently set all ego aside and be a channel for my thinking to come into the world.

By its very nature, discipline is rooted in self-admiration. (Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived.) We admire ourselves for being so wonderful. The discipline itself, not the creative outflow, becomes the point.

Once the world at large— or the media, to be more accurate— beatifies you, life is never the same. And because you cannot resist the stoking of your ego, no matter how hard you try, you begin to lose sight of yourself as just another workaday sinner.

When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side?

We all pursue what we think is best for us, even if it means our extinction. Sometimes, especially if it means that.