Quotes About Ego

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God right off.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

Si quiero ser libre para amar tengo que liberarme de mi egoísmo, de mi sensualidad, de mi avaricia, del consumismo, de mi afán por coleccionar likes.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.

I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.

All I believe in is food and myself.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.