Quotes About Ego

los hombre que si bien reconocen que otros son más sagaces, más elocuentes o más cultos, difícilmente llegan a creer que haya muchos tan sabios como ellos mismos, ya que cada uno ve su propio talento a la mano, y el de los demás hombres a distancia. [...]" (Hobbes, Leviatán. Cap XIII.).

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era—but nobody guessed, back then, that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can't breath right, they can't function.

Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. The

Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.

Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Help me, I can't breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

Isn't that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would've thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate." Barabas grinned. "I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus," Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

Do you like my working persona? Saiman asked softly. An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say? Aren't we pleased with ourselves. Are you Chinese, Japanese, half-white? I can't tell, your features are neither here nor there. I'm inscrutable, mysterious and intellectual. He forgot conceited. Did you have any trouble getting that ego through the door? Saiman didn't even blink. Not in the least.

You're like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities' desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone. — Kate Daniels

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Did you think I was sitting on my hands?" "I thought you might be injured." He looked at me. "We've met, you and I?" I deliberately took a big step back. "What?" he growled. "I'm making room for your ego.

Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.

Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.

As a young man, I had a strong faith in God. It dwindled and I pretty much abandoned it when I went to college. Basically, what I tell everybody is what took over my life was my pride.

Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don't actually listen to people who know things.

When I was younger I cared more about the position I batted.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.