Quotes About Ego

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

Amor - Dupla satisfação da vaidade e do sentimento de poder.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

The craving to be famous is like an insidious disease, no matter how well known you become it's never enough, it never satisfies.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

when my choices are fueled by self-focused need, my best work is seldom done.

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Man is a true Narcissus; he delights to see his own image everywhere; and he spreads himself underneath the universe, like the amalgam behind the glass.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Don't be humble . . . you're not that great.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.

Don't be so humble, you are not that great.

Dont be so humble you're not that great

EGO wants to be confirmed. It needs "company" to expand. The more you know your SELF, the less approval from others you need.

Resistance to Change comes from your Ego.

the finest thing a father can do for his daughter is not to promise her protection forever, but to overcome his own ego and introduce her to the Father larger than himself.

Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was much, if any, range of intellect beyond his own. But he forced himself to consider now the possibility that there might be as large a range above him as he knew to be below him—and

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Addicts are selfish; it's always, ALWAYS about them.

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.