My Ego Quotes

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

Making love with his ego.

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego - so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator's desire to connect with human beings.

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.