Quotes About Ego

The key to success is to be alive, open and present in order to receive what is unfolding. Check your ego at the door and listen to the possibilities not the limitations. Every change is possible if you are truly sincere, committed and willing to persevere.

She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

You did not look like that on the basketball court in high school." "Like what?" He shook his head. "I swim." "To where?" The male ego kicked in, if a bit belatedly, and Quinn's laughter sounded very pleased. "I swim sometimes when I can't sleep." "Mmm. Molly says you have insomnia." "I do." "I can see that.

Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing. And when we believe it, perhaps it is true.

A man is proud until he falls.

One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psychological contents as outer-world creatures and demons who threaten to engulf and physically destroy him. The barriers between inner and outer, subject and object, dissolve so entirely that no boundary remains to protect the ego from the onslaught of this projected unconscious material.

People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become "peak seekers." They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

A small man is like a small dog, always barking about what he can do.

Everyone thinks that his own thoughts are best but finds no inspiration.

Just because you say you are great doesn't mean you are.

Little persons try to be perfect while great ones do not know they are great.

Man is so intelligent animal on earth that if he was empowered as much as God, he would start battling with him to get his position.

Man makes money, money doesn't make man but it makes monkey of him.

Some people don't know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.

Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.

The number of elected officials who were willing to put the good of the country ahead of their own ego, and the success of their political party, was minuscule.

The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin.

There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.

My ego has been trampled on more times than an old cigarette butt in the gutter

Sia chiaro, per me ragione significa che io ho ragione.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.