Ego Quotes

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction ...

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to ...

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large s...

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you ...

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your se...

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you und...

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much long...

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes o...

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give ...

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...

Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...

oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a po...

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of “Sp...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and h...

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work s...

Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intac...

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and t...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself ar...

God cares only for what is his, busies himself with only himself, thinks only of himself, and has on...

If i cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfa...

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselv...

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or n...

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual ...

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya H...

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not ...

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how sill...

Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it mean...

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of ...

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's...

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Opennes...

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to t...

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

All true love and all sacrifice arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andi...

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the...

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see .....

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is lif...

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is th...

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we a...

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with ou...

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-g...

Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, sp...

The square root of I is I.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the o...

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what ...

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to a...

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine...

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, importan...

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed conv...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ec...

Egotism fears its own self.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them;...

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I k...

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensu...

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to ...

For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must neve...

Your ego is your strictest judge.

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is n...

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to ...