Quotes About Ego

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego.

We often favor feeling right, over being right.

Pride is a dangerous sin. It eats away at our soul. It convinces us that we are better than others,

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adulation is all right if you don't inhale.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

All my big success has happened since I worked with Paul. I've worked with other people and alone, but I've enjoyed myself more and worked best with him. If he became big-headed that would be fatal, because I'm the bighead in our relationship, and I bully him over work.

If anyone pays me a compliment, I'll do almost anything.

I've put myself on this pedestal from the start.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn't believe that. I'm still human being.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.