Quotes About Ego

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Our passions are ourselves.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.