Quotes About Ego

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

But most of all, I'd like to thank me. Without me, none of this would have been possible. I really did a bang-up job on this book, and I deserve all the credit. I hereby revoke all the gratitude I expressed above and keep it for myself.

He liked the way the obsidian reflected his light, the way its slick surfaces caught fire as he passed. Of course, he did not consider how black it would be when he was gone. My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself. But

He's such a male little male.

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you.

To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.

Exist? trei feluri de oameni inteligenÈ›i: unii atât de inteligenÈ›i, încât consider? de la sine înÈ›eles s? li se spun? asta, cei din a doua categorie sunt suficient de inteligenÈ›i s?-È™i dea seama c? sunt flataÈ›i, nu descriÈ™i È™i cei din a treia, care sunt atât de puÈ›in inteligenÈ›i încât nu înÈ›eleg nimic.

And never fall into that statistical macho trap that's so prevalent in fly-fishing these days. If you keep score, you can be beaten, but if you refuse to compete you can leave the impression that you have long since risen above that kind of crap. When someone says to you, "I caught forty-eight trout and ten of them were twenty inches or better. How'd you do?" say, "Yeah, we got some. Couple nice ones, too.

The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this non-existent thing.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Patton loved war; Monty loved himself.

Better to lose your ego to the one you love, than to lose your love because of your ego

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.