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Quotes About Ego

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God
~ Madonna
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
~ Mae West
narcissistic drama-seeker who covered a fragile ego with a bullying impulse and, this time, took American democracy to the brink.
~ Maggie Haberman
Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love.
~ Unknown
The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.
~ Unknown
Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.
~ Unknown
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Anyone who worships his own creation, something of his own making, is someone in a state of confusion. Power
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself
~ Unknown
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)
~ Mao Zedong
So often, the issues that we are so quick to defend or take offense at too readily are indicative of either a wounded or inflated ego.
~ Unknown
Cuceririle amoroase sunt cele mai egoiste dintre cruciade.
~ Marc Levy
and in witnessing the same grant he went even further, referring to himself as 'king of Britain'.
~ Unknown
They're such supreme egos. It's disgusting. I've never seen anything worse than an artist as a mind. It is very low, uninteresting as far as the relationship of men is concerned.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord,
~ Marcel Proust
Everybody has an idea of himself which augments, aggravates, or modifies the actuality.
~ John Myers Myers
If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
~ John Ruskin
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
~ John Ruskin
She doesn't love you. She loves herself. I mean, you're not going to be able to compete with that.
~ John Sandford
It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said.
~ John Sandford
It's because I remind them they're not God," I said. "And that if there is one, I'm closer to Him than they are.
~ John Scalzi