Quotes About Ego

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts.

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you

While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.

Just because you consider yourself a genius doesn't mean you are smart.

If you think, you are important, you are not.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.