Quotes About Ego

Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

there can't be two geniuses in the same bed.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.

They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.

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.

One could almost hear him saying, 'It's me! Here I come, the great man himself, the master of the house, the wage-earner, the one who makes it possible for the rest of you to live so well! Notice me and pay your respects!

When we take ourselves too seriously it gets in the way of the thing that we are so seriously trying to do.

He never took strong positions, positions where you knew where Lyndon stood," one student had said. "He was only interested in himself and what could help himself." The feeling in Washington was the same.

Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond? While ego crouches inside, aware but never willing to risk it? No, can't be that; Mike was unafraid – as gaily unafraid as Prof.

Conceited indeed! Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Boss, I keep telling you: it's impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he's eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he'll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.) Jake

The shadow is that which has not entered adequately into consciousness. It is the despised quarter of our being. It often has an energy potential nearly as great as that of our ego. If it accumulates more energy than our ego, it erupts as an overpowering rage or some indiscretion that slips past us; or we have a depression or an accident that seems to have its own purpose. The shadow gone autonomous is a terrible monster in our psychic house.

The ego and the shadow come from the same source and exactly balance each other. To make light is to make shadow; one cannot exist without the other.

The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world it is our psychological clothing and it mediates between our true selves and our environment just as our physical clothing presents an image to those we meet. The ego is what we are and know about consciously. The shadow is that part of us we fail to see or know.

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.

Here's what it is, here's what it isn't, now here's why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.

he had an ego so large that only by contemplating the mathematical definition of infinity could anything so limitless be imagined.

Since the mechanical bio-chemical reflexes on this level remain invisible (and cannot even reach translation onto the verbal level except in an altered state of consciousness, such as hypnosis, or under certain drugs), this hard-wired infantile information system controls all later information systems (or selves) without the knowledge of the conscious ego.

In pre-ethological terms, the emotional-territorial circuit is what we usually call "ego." Ego is simply the mammalian recognition of one's status in the pack; it is a "role" as sociologists say, a single brain circuit which mistakes itself for the whole Self, the entire brain-mind apparatus. The "egotist" behaves like "a two year old," in the common saying, because Ego is the imprint of the toddling and toilet-training stage.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.