Quotes About Ego

We accept without question that we–human beings– are the center of the universe. Talk about hubris. But when a woman says, 'I love you', that won't go through our skulls.

She wanted only to be feared. I wanted to be feared and loved. I didn't want everything she had as she stood onstage that night. I wanted more.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

One of the ways in which our culture fosters the narcissistic personality is by its exaggerated emphasis upon the importance of winning. There is a popular slogan that says winning is the only thing that counts. Such an attitude minimizes human values and subordinates the feelings of others to this one overriding goal to win, to be on top, to be number one. But

The ability to contain excitation or feeling is self-possession. It is the third stage in the therapeutic program. The first two are self-awareness and self-expression. Self-possession is the stage in which the ego functions as the standard-bearer of a self that knows who it is and what it has to do. The self possesses an ego. It is the stage in which the self experiences its being as a fully mature man or woman.

Two factors are important one is an ego that is weak or insecure. . The other factor is a flood of feeling that cannot be integrated by the ego.

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

BIRGing, which stands for basking in reflected glory.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

There was a joke going around campus when I was at Washington State. It went, 'What's the difference between God and Ryan Leaf?' The punchline was, 'God doesn't think he's Ryan Leaf.'

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

I'd always surfed with my ego - I had to get the biggest, best wave - and a lot of it was for survival.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Normally the biggest stars, as Wayne Rooney is, are selfish but he is not.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.