Quotes About Ego

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

2. No tengas deseo demasiado de saber, porque en ello se halla grande estorbo y engaño. Los letrados gustan de ser vistos y tenidos por tales. Muchas cosas hay que, el saberlas, poco o nada aprovecha al alma; y muy loco es el que en otras cosas entiende, sino en las que tocan a la salvación. Las muchas palabras no hartan el alma; mas la buena vida le da refrigerio, y la pura conciencia causa gran confianza en Dios.

From this sin, that a man loveth himself too inordinately, almost everything hangeth which needeth to be utterly overcome: when that evil is conquered and put under foot, there shall be great peace and tranquillity continually. But because few strive earnestly to die perfectly to themselves, and do not heartily go forth from themselves, therefore do they remain entangled in themselves, and cannot be raised in spirit above themselves.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. — Emo Philips

The many ways we have felt angry or cheated, rejected or misunderstood, isolated or forgotten, used or abused, only drive us deeper into victimhood, self-pity, and sadness. Our ego is expensive to keep fed, and makes extraordinary demands without ever being satisfied. When the ego becomes more and more inflated, the self is always imploding.

I expect Custer was crazy enough to believe he would win, being the type of man who carries the whole world within his own head and thus when his passion is aroused and floods his mind, reality is utterly drowned.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

Playing the nerd isn't necessarily the most ego-boosting role.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

For an artiste to grow, for a person to grow, you have to learn. A learner cannot afford to have an ego. Learning can never stop. If it does, then it is death.

Never think you're too good for a role, and never take yourself too seriously.