Quotes About Ego

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have

See. Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?" "I don't want blame." "Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.

Maybe less you have, the more you are required to boast.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have.

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often

God save us from ever ending, though billions have./ The world is blanketed by foregone deaths,/ small beads of ego, bright with appetite,/ whose pin-sized prick of light winked out,/ bequeathing Earth a jagged coral shelf/ unseen beneath the black unheeding waves.

With a pleasantness that amounts to arrogance he says, Hi.

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being "right.

That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

When we identify ourselves with a permanent, solid "self," it is a delusion of consciousness, a form of self-imprisonment, according to Einstein. Elsewhere he wrote that "the true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.