Quotes About Ego

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies.

He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

Mensch, es spukt in deinem Kopfe!

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit." You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit

Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken. There is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Like I am struck by my own brilliance?" "I was going to say maniacal," Harriet replied.

Samo izvolite, poslužite se mojom dobrotom, trošite moju iskrenost, hranite svoj ego mojom ljubavlju, gužvajte moje emocije kao staru hartiju, uzalud vam trud. Ne?ete postati bolji, ne?ete postati ja, jer treba vam i duša. A nju mi ne možete uzeti, i sve dok je imam, ostat ?u ?ovjek.

People in fact talk most often for their own sake, and with a need to hear the echo of their words.

I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

Nothing is worth your peace of mind, not even your own ego.

There is no team in I

I've invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.

Joseph wore uncertainty poorly; it seemed to somehow misshape him. I heard in it everything he hid from the world, his own sense of worthlessness, the fear behind his ego.

Forgiveness and acceptance, I thought as we found a spot near the largest tree in the lobby. Although I'd been kidding with Georgia, I was pretty sure those were the keys to relationships. Everything else was just ego and hurt feelings.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

It terrifies me to admit to a firsthand understanding of the way the heart and the ego are entwined. Like diseased trees that have folded in on one another, our need to worship fuses with our need to be worshipped.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!