Quotes About Ego

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told a Des Moines audience Tuesday that his former boss can't admit to making a mistake because "his manhood is at issue here." "I don't understand it, although I had to deal with it every day, said Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who served as Trump's top aide from July 31, 2017, until his Jan. 2, 2019, resignation.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

En el hecho de identificarnos completamente con nuestra forma y no con nuestra esencia está la raíz de todos los problemas y el origen del sufrimiento. A esto es a lo que denominamos ego, la creencia en que estamos separados del universo y de la propia Vida.

No, por favor. No soporto la vanidad masculina cuando se desata espontáneamente.

Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

If you have to win, if you have to be right, if you can't lose or can't be wrong, you will cause yourself to define and perceive categories of market information as painful.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.

I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'

How could he face his wife as a loser?

Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.

A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.

The three facets of the world system in 1 John 2:16 are the lust of the flesh (the desire to satisfy the impulses of the flesh), the lust of the eyes (the desire for things we see), and the boastful pride of life (the desire to promote self). E.M. Bounds graphically portrays the world system that surrounds us.

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.