Ego Quotes

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.

~ Eric Christopher Jackson

Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

~ Maureen Corrigan

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

~ Anthony Liccione

Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.

~ Lisa Bedrick

Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

~ T.f. Hodge

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

~ Pushkar Saraf

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

~ Gertrude Stein

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

~ Franz Kafka

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

~ Rafi Zabor

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.

~ Human Angels

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

~ Max Stirner

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

~ Sandeep Bhat

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

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

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

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

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: NoHuxley: 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

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