Quotes About Ego

Once you start that important spiritual housekeeping work, your Imposters will surely protest. Your Victim Imposter might whine: I don't wanna do the hard work. Don't make me! Your Egotist Imposter might lament: I already know that I can do the hard work, ergo I don't need to do it. I don't have to prove anything to anyone!

Paradoxically, deep down, people with dominant Egotist Imposters often have compromised self-esteem, even though they seem to brim with self-centeredness and what masquerades as self-love.

I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

You have to bear in mind where Louis van Gaal has worked before. His self-belief is bigger than Jose Mourinho's.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.'

Su niekuo ji nesutikdavo – buvo pernelyg išdidi, kad kovot? d?l pirmos vietos, ir per daug ambicinga, kad pasitenkint? antr?j?.

A la vérité, il forçait un peu sur le sublime : c'était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo.

It's ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.

all belief systems are just the stories we create in order to deal with the void. Ego abhors a vacuum, so everybody's scrambling to create the illusion of something where there's nothing. Belief systems are simply the devices we use to explain away the unthinkable horror of no-self.

The end of illusion is the end of you.   U.G. Krishnamurti

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.

the hard look of a man who also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.           I

There's another element too: nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it's usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he's correct, won't listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.

nearly every cult is headed by a single controlling leader. He—it's usually a man—has a consuming ego, attacks his enemies, lashes out in anger, has an absolute belief that he's correct, won't listen to advice or criticism, is paranoid and craves worship and adulation.