Quotes About Ego

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Give someone half a page in a newspaper and they think they own the world.

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

For Trump, his presidency was more about him than what he could accomplish. For this reason, the only verdict that has ever mattered to Trump is the one rendered on Election Day.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.

Don't take failure personally. Get your ego out of it and your curiosity into it. Approach failure with an attitude of Hmmm, I wonder why that happened? Was there something I could have done differently?

you're a greedy egomaniacal fathead for wanting more than you already have.

Nick might have enjoyed making out with me. He might even want to be with me. But more than anything, Nick wanted to win. And winning me over wasn't enough.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

We're paying him an awful lot of money to tell us we're wonderful. And then, as if another voice had interposed itself, Nice work if you can get it.

I'm not a vain person, but I am human...

The personality and the ego scream, while the soul whispers.

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.

Las personas orgullosas no hacen más que atormentarse a sí mismas.

There's nothing more dangerous than a short guy with something to prove.

centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something

These reasonings have no logical connection: I am richer than you; therefore I am your superior. I am more eloquent than you; therefore I am your superior. The true logical connection is rather this: I am richer than you; therefore my possessions must exceed yours. I am more eloquent than you; therefore my style must surpass yours. But you, after all, consist in neither property nor in style.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.

I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.