Quotes About Ego

The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul's longing for Truth into another illusion.

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

Men are like beer. Some are bold and some are smooth. But every damn one of 'em has a big-ass head full of air.

Je suis un artiste, et mon Å"uvre, c'est Moi.

There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

It's a scary thing, you know, being a man. We always have to run the risk of inviting someone out and being turned down flat. You women don't realize how fragile our egos are.

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod? They make me feel all manly.

I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster. My dick is better than your dick, I said.

Some free advice for you: Never fight an old man. They've been there, done that, written the book, made and starred in the movie, designed the T-shirt, and they've got no ego at all about how the fight gets won.

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity." "Bob," I said, "you're a skull. You don't have any masculinity to insult.

I mean, maybe it isn't all about you. Or at least, not only about you." I stared at her blankly for a moment. "But for that to be true," I said, "I would have to not be the center of the universe.

The Ego Rip Step 1: Make a list of all your short comings. Step 2: Grasp list firmly in both hands. Step 3: Rip list to shreds. Step 4: Consider yourself perfect.

A little ego goes nowhere.

In fancy Los Angeles hotel rooms there is always an uncomfortable number of mirrors that remind us why we are not movie stars.