Quotes About Ego

You know men. We have delicate egos.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Cats like men are flatterers.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Small things make base men proud.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.