Quotes About Ego

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

I could puke on myself and still be good looking.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

the best of all good friends is pride.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.