Quotes About Ego

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

Appreciation and compliments can make you feel good about yourself. Stay humble by simply thanking people for their kind words. But each time you receive a compliment or praise do not absorb it or dwell too much in it because all these may go to your head and you may lose interest in improving yourself as a leader.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun.

Wow. Really? You have yourself in quite high esteem there, Nora.' 'Shouldn't I? I mean, shouldn't everyone? What's wrong with self-esteem?

If your God complex is one in which you seek only to gain and never to give, you'll always look at the success of others with resentment." "You

There is indeed an element of relaxation in meditation, but it is connected with the relief that comes from letting go of hopes and fears, of attachments and the whims of the ego that never stop feeding our inner conflicts.

we want to be free of inner suffering once and for all, it is not enough to rid ourselves of the emotions themselves; we must eliminate our attachment to the ego. Is that possible? It is, because as we've seen, the ego exists merely as mental imputation. A concept can be dispelled, but only by the wisdom that perceives that the ego is devoid of intrinsic existence.

First we conceive the "I" and grasp onto it. Then we conceive the "mine" and cling to the material world. Like water trapped on the water wheel, we spin in circles, powerless. I praise the compassion that embraces all beings. – Chandrakirti

Ce sont donc les gens dotés d'un ego surdimensionné et qui se sentent vulnérables qui sont les plus dangereux

Les médiocres me tolère que d'être entourés de flateurs qui leur cachent à eux-même leur médiocrité.

Es error común de los humanos creer que el prójimo concede a su persona tanta importancia como cada uno se da a sí mismo; los demás, a no ser que tengan interés particular en el recuerdo, olvidan rápidamente lo que nos ha ocurrido, y si no lo han olvidado, su recuerdo no tiene la firmeza que imaginamos.

We are all apt to fall into the error of assuming that other people think we are as important as we do ourselves; but unless there is some particular reason for their remembering it, others forget what has happened to us very quickly; and, even if they have not forgotten, their memories attach much less weight to it than we are inclined to believe.

A pre-self, a latent ego that remains in ignorance of itself, because it has not yet encountered in others a limit to the self.

Superficial conceptualizations, positivist determinations of a great truth: there is the id as perception that is imperception, nonconventional thought (and not hidden adequate thought); there is the ego, the perception-consciousness apparatus, like a system of attitudes which avoid, bypass the id--(without going so far as to be consciousness of the unconscious).

Psychoanalysis does not reveal an ego that operates behind my back; it links the unconscious to the conscious. We do not want to take responsibility for the unconscious...The unconscious is not a second consciousness, but a nonthematized lived experience...If it is not thematically known, is not inevitably unknown to us who live it.

Psychoanalysis is, indeed, in the final analysis, existential psychoanalysis, but not in Sartre's sense, that is to say, as revelation of a position taken by 'freedom,' but as revelation of intercorporeality, of the ego-others assembly such as it is realized by each, of the symbolic system set up in our machine for living.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.