Quotes About Ego

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I am my favourite villain!

I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.

A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Whenever I hear someone boast of having conquered a mountain by climbing it or a wild river by paddling it, I am struck by the foolishness of this attitude. It seems to me a pitiful bravado in the face of a great and powerful mystery, like whistling in the dark to give oneself courage. Worse, it arrogantly pits the ego against the matrix of being, conveying the harmful illusion that one creature can dominate the creation of which it is a part and on which it depends for its very life.

Io sono un artista e ciò significa che posso essere egocentrico quanto mi pare.

sin is deceptively strong and pride has many faces. I

Evil people do tend to think they're the heroes of their own stories,

I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Louis Kronenberger

The biggest mistake people make is that they think they're special. They're not.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are 'like' everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...

Knee Problems: Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won't give in. Forgiveness. Understanding. Compassion. I bend and flow with ease, and all is well.

One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.