My Ego Quotes

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

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.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

Don't let your ego get in the way of your success.

When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.