Ego Quotes

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

At the risk of displeasing innocent ears I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul.

The nobility of the soul makes itself known by admitting its egoism without consciousness, without remorse, without self-deception.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

True love, on the other hand, unifies all the elements of our person and becomes a new light pointing the way to a great and fulfilled life. Without truth, love is incapable of establishing a firm bond; it cannot liberate our isolated ego or redeem it from the fleeting moment in order to create life and bear fruit.

That's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.

All human beings have a desire to belong and to feel significant and important. And the way to solve this problem is not to drown out the ego but to find your sense of importance in something outside of the self. Sometimes it's friends, sometimes it's family, sometimes it's a great cause, it's a great loyalty, but give yourself to that something and life becomes meaningful.

The individual who is self-centered, the individual who is egocentric ends up being very sensitive, a very touchy person. And that is one of the tragic effects of a self-centered attitude, that it leads to a very sensitive and touchy response toward the universe.

He who finds his ego shall lose his ego, but he who loseth his ego for my sake, shall find it. And so you see people who are apparently selfish; it isn't merely an ethical issue but it is a psychological issue.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

I'm better at writing' was just a way to get you biting. Oh the truth is that our egos are absurd.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Every need got an ego to feed.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.