Quotes About Ego

There's a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it." Those words stayed with me.

The other lawyer looked at him and said, "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego. This doesn't mean you don't argue with passion and intensity.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego.

Loyalty is disagreeing strongly, and loyalty is executing faithfully. The decision is not about you or your ego; it is about gathering all the information, analyzing it, and trying to get the right answer. I still love you, so get mad and get over it.

need you. I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

Je suis capable du meilleur et du pire. Mais, dans le pire, c'est moi le meilleur !

All that you say you are, you aren't.

Arrogance is blindness.

Never mistake my surety for arrogance.

Only the fool forces all to believe his beliefs.

Think not of those around you for as you do so, your rival takes away your lead.

Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".

As Ram Dass puts it, "The ego is a tiny room. But the soul can merge into the One.

And this is what I mean by "aging from the inside out." If we merely move around our internal furniture, redesigning our roles and maintaining high gear, we do not see through the ego's charade. Instead, we permit it to continue its endless efforts at control. And this does not carry us deeper into our spiritual center, beyond ego.

In late life, we can pose this question internally no matter what activity we are engaged in, whether we are quietly drinking a cup of tea, sitting in a noisy meeting, cooking a festive family dinner, or running a marathon. Our identity or self-sense at any moment can be rooted in ego or rooted in soul. It's not what we're doing but how we're doing—our state of mind—that makes the difference.

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.

The idiot actually leaned in. "I said, do you know who the fuck I am?" Henry peered at him and actually looked concerned. "Do you not know who you are?

There's a kind of cocksure attitude that overtakes a man in the presence of the dearly departed, a you're-dead-and-I'm-not kind of perspective.

And hoped to advance his own political career with a personal victory." "Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.