Quotes About Ego

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

[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

So his ego was the size of Uranus—and, no, the pun is not unintentional.

Freud had saddled Western culture with the bizarre notion that the least considered utterances were always, magically, the truest-that reflection added nothing, and the ego merely censored or lied. It was an idea born more of convenience than anything else: he'd identified the part of the mind easiest to circumvent-with tricks like free association-and then declared the product of all that remained to be "honest.

If you have to tell people you're important," Evan said, "then you're not important.

Flattery isn't the highest compliment – parasitism is.

She does not care what you think. She only cares what you think as far it helps her get what she wants from you

Guardiola told me that if there is a hint of disharmony within the group he removes it, as he did with Eto'o and Ibrahimovi?, who wanted to be stars in a team where no one feels a star.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It will get to the point of smashing everything. When there is a danger from outside, you bolt, but when the danger comes from inside, how can you bolt? The danger from inside is that complicated thing, the love of the wolf, the complicity that attaches us to that which threatens us.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love, rather than to lose that someone you love because of your foolish pride.

Our ego consciousness — namely, who we think we are, or what we believe real — is at best a thin wafer floating on an iridescent sea. In any moment, we view the world through a distorting lens and make choices based on what the lens allows us to see, not what lies outside its frame.

The new myth will not come from above. Only totalitarian ideologies, or ego-crafted appeals to our complexes, will appear in such fashion.