Quotes About Ego

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

There is one person I can think of better than me. And that's Zach Braff. What a cool guy.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

Revile those who flatter you.

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Renunciation means death of false ego.