My Ego Quotes

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.

I baptize you not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil. (Ego baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli.)

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

Love is transcending the ego to connect with another.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

Solitude is unquenched ego.

Ego is vital but not noble.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think its cool. I have a lot of fun.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

The question is: Will Trump's ego allow him to reconsider any negative moves that he now might have in mind? Such reconsideration is really out of character for him.

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.