Quotes About Ego

The male ego is a powerful source of self-delusion." That made me laugh. "How do they do it?" I asked. "I don't know, but every single one of them looks in the mirror every morning and sees an Adonis staring back at him. And somehow that carries over into the rest of their lives.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

If you have to tell someone you're powerful and famous, then either you aren't or you're embarrassingly insecure.

In his experience, only children greeted the sight of a police officer with enthusiasm and pleasure. Children like order and security. Most adults do too, but those feelings are complicated by issues of ego, dominance, control, status, and sex, all of which come bubbling up from the bog of the unconscious when you are confronted with a man with the power to take your freedom or your life.

My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

Being humble is the key to learning because it is the ego that keeps our minds closed to new ideas.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

The braggadocio aspect is important: a successful but modest man is ordinarily not called a k'nocker. A k'nocker is someone who works crossword puzzles—with a pen (especially if someone is watching).

Kesombongan dan kelemahan adalah kembar siam.

Do you know what Krishnamurti says? Consciously or unconsciously, we are all completely selfish, and as long as we get what we want, we believe everything is all right.

Memory says, "I did that." Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE3

It's better to lose our pride to the one You Love, than to lose the one we love, because of our pride.

131: My heart is not proud, G. I am never haughty. Except maybe now, when I'm explaining how very humble I am.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.