Ego Quotes - Page 5

Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.

Richie Norton

You can never totally control your ego, but you can understand it enough to make it control itself by convincing it that you are doing what it wants.

Charbel Tadros

If you will not reprove yourself,’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.

Idries Shah

Arrogance is nothing but Stupidity with an ego.

Manoj Vaz

Love is a battle where one has to die for others EGO.

pavankumarguptha

She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of “Spacebar,” trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I’d played it.But it was still catchy.Whoever had written this song had known what they were doing.

Maggie Stiefvater

If you think you're smart,think twice to be smarter.

Toba Beta

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

José Saramago

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

Bobby Fischer

You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just as it is. It was designed for you, given to you for your experience. All you have to do, and all you have ever had to do is accept this gift. Take it and let it in. Let yourself experience the present moment just as it is. It doesn't get any better than this. This is the simple truth the ego refuses to accept, and it will suffer as long as that is the case.

Gina Lake

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it.

Toba Beta

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Susan Blackmore

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

James Hollis

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

Jennifer Estep

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

Colin Clark

Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

Alexandre Dumas

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Richard Le Gallienne

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Stephen King

I'm pretty much a goddess around here.

Christopher Healy

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Tahir Shah

Distance starts in hearts,confirms in mind & actions from tongue....

Adil Adam Memon

Amazing, life-altering anonymous picture quotes on FaceBook: Are they created by graphic designers who steal quotes or don't bother to research the author, or are they original and just have exceptionally less ego than I do? Cos if I ever write something that brilliant it's gonna have flashing headlights.

Fierce Dolan

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

C.G. Jung

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Jean Vanier

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

Nouman Ali Khan

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Gordon Ramsay

I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

Simone Elkeles

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

Ayn Rand

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.

Sebastian Horsley

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

Jack Gardner

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Thornton Wilder

Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?"Bryce: "No."Huxley: "Seabags Brown does."Bryce: "I don't see what that has to do..."Huxley: "What do you know about Gaelic history?"Bryce: "Not much."Huxley: "Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too."Bryce: "I don't..."Huxley: " What do you know about astronomy?"Bryce: "A little."Huxley: "Discuss it with Wellman, he held a fellowship." Bryce: "This is most puzzling."Huxley: "What about Homer, ever read Homer?"Bryce: "Of course I've read Homer."Huxley: "In the original Greek?"Bryce: "No"Huxley: "Then chat with Pfc. Hodgkiss. Loves to read the ancient Greek."Bryce: "Would you kindly get to the point?"Huxley: "The point is this, Bryce. What makes you think you are so goddam superior? Who gave you the bright idea that you had a corner on the world's knowledge? There are privates in this battalion who can piss more brains down a slit trench then you'll ever have. You're the most pretentious, egotistical individual I've ever encountered. Your superiority complex reeks. I've seen the way you treat men, like a big strutting peacock. Why, you've had them do everything but wipe your ass.

Leon Uris

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are. The "independent" mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth. There is a persisting tension between the biological imperative of our genes on the one hand and the cultural imperatives of our memes on the other, but we would be foolish to "side with" our genes; that would be to commit the most egregious error of pop sociobiology. Besides, as we have already noted, what makes us special is that we, alone among species, can rise above the imperatives of our genes— thanks to the lifting cranes of our memes.

Daniel C. Dennett

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

George Eliot

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.

Peter Santos

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

Khadija Rupa

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Cassandra Clare

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.""Meaning you?""What else?

Cassandra Clare

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

Terence McKenna

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Warsan Shire

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

C.S. Lewis

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Simone Elkeles

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

Hugh Prather

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Anne Rice

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

Kamand Kojouri

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

J.D. Salinger

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Fulton J. Sheen

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tried a lot,but can't find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.

sandeep bhat

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Max Stirner

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