Quotes About Ego

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.

The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we love.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.