Quotes About Ego

Eu1 - sinele inventat, umplut cu concepte si asteptari despre bine si rau, despre ce trebuie facut, despre ce e de dorit si ce nu. Eu2 - cel care joaca

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

when the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

It's difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youÂ're better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.