Quotes About Ego

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me? What does this spiritual system do for women? Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind; that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking.

Let ego die and let love live. Ego kills but love heals. Lets love, live and heal. Surely life deserves the best.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

Come on, Bill. As small as America's dick is, those limeys will stretch across the Atlantic to suck it.

Aggression is built into the ego system, which totally focuses on "I, me, and mine" whenever conflict arises.

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are. Higher

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are.

the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous—large souled. —Sam Keen, philosopher

We also cling to the past as a way of contrasting it with the present—usually to highlight something positive about ourselves at the expense of someone else. Do you ever find yourself beginning a long self-serving story with the phrase, "When I was your age . . ."?

It's not about you. It's about what other people think of you.

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

Censorship is the height of vanity.