My Ego Quotes

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

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

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

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

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

You know men. We have delicate egos.

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.