Quotes About Ego

self-gratulation

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. 

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status.

In terms of his personality," Shvets added, "the guy is not a complicated cookie, his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This combination makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter.

What Jesus is saying here, powerfully and clearly, is that if you do the work of transforming your being, moving beyond the egoic mind, then you become a living spirit.

I'm tired of self-important mentalities

His maleness bores me. Nothing is so boring as the phallus, so inherently stupid and stupidly conceited.

T]he secret is that the ego is the devil — not the shadow... there is evil beyond the ego — an archetypal evil — but for most people, it's the ego that's really the problem.

If you go back to that psychological document we call the New Testament, you'll find that it says the devil is 'the father of lies. Now the shadow never lies; it's the ego that lies about its real motives. That's why successful psychotherapy, and any genuine religious conversion, requires absolute honesty about oneself.

Chimaera Most people, today, are chimaera chimerical: just fantasies of self-importance their own self-importance and sphinxes of self-consciousness.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

To know yourself is to forget yourself.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

And the pathetic part of it is that frequently those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos by a show of tumult and conceit which is truly nauseating. As Shakespeare put it: " … man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / … Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.