Quotes About Ego

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.

I train and keep in shape. It's quite vain.

I'm vain, I can be vain!

I'm pretty vain.

Vanity takes a lot of work. I'm too lazy to be vain.

I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine's Day. When you're a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.

A person who lives only for himself destroys himself.

Date night? It was always about me and what I wanted to do.

Ego strength includes being able to tolerate strong emotions, to keep focused under stress, to express yourself freely, to perceive reality accurately, and to make sound decisions.

Only humans define themselves by conflict with other humans.

cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

Well, there is narcissism in all of us, of course. I mean, we are the protagonists of our own lives, so naturally it feels like we're at the wheel. But we're not at the wheel. That just happens to be where the window is located.

it is to this ardor for making oneself the topic of conversation, to this furor to distinguish oneself which nearly always keeps us outside ourselves, that we owe what is best and worst among men, our virtues and vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers, that is to say, a multitude of bad things against a small number of good ones.

Niemand kümmert sich mehr um die Wirklichkeit; alle setzen ihr Wesen in den Schein. Als Sklaven und Narren ihrer Eigenliebe leben sie dahin, nicht um zu leben, sondern um andere glauben zu machen, sie hätten gelebt.

Above all he is jealous of his own self-respect; this is his most valued possession and it would be a real loss to him were he to acquire the respect of others at the expense of his own.

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out.