Quotes About Ego

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbors.

We may often be of more consequence in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbours.

One cannot subordinate himself simultaneously to God and to his own idolized self. Thus the Sages say: Whoever becomes angry, [even if he is a prophet] the Devine Presence leaves him. (Pesachim 66b)

Lust drives the chariot of the yetzer hara; the seat on which it sits is pride.

Our "ego" or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated, and ever vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect.

what effacement of the individual ego, a life in science now entailed.

Our 'ego' or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated and vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect.

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

People ho need to be right do so because they fundamentally feel wrong.

The ego's use of the body is to make it a god, while the soul's use of the body is for it to serve God.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

The ego makes a lousy master, but an extraordinary servant. Think of the ego as a frightened child who has been given a job far bigger than it can handle. It is not equipped to make big decisions

El ego se siente amenazado por la felicidad porque piensa que si eres demasiado feliz él se quedará sin trabajo. De modo que si ve que empiezas a salir de la miseria, vuelve a hundirte

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

La humildad es una virtud. La humillación, no. Ser humilde significa permitir que Dios aporte más vida al mundo a través de ti, en vez de ser un peón en la búsqueda de sangre del ego. Dios promueve tu bienestar y hace todo lo posible para promoverlo.

Typical Ren, Hux thought. Self-centered, arrogant, indifferent to the interests of others.

Or there's Alex Crowley , tiresomely attempting to persuade his school-chums to refer to him as Shelley's Alastor , like some self-conscious Goth from Nottingham called Dave insisting that his vampire name is Armand .

A final piece of advice: recognise and beware the toxic blend of low self-esteem and grandiose self-regard known only to the truly damned.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out ones least impressive qualities.

Brothers out here flexing their talk, setting themselves up for failures; just to prove a worthless point about what they are really doing in the streets. -MillYentei

when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.