Quotes About Ego

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?