My Ego Quotes

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.

I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

Be a star not a diva!

For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

You are God. You are not the ego. You are God!

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

I can't live off the ego.

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.