Ego Quotes

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

~ Tom Hiddleston

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

~ Hugh Grant

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

~ George Harrison

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

~ Michael Korda

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

~ George Michael

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

~ Barbra Streisand

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

~ Bruce Springsteen

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

~ Ridley Scott

In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

~ Radhanath Swami

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

~ Karen Armstrong

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

~ Sharon Bolton

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

~ Wayne Dyer

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

~ Ruth J. Simmons

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

~ Anna Benson

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

~ Marianne Williamson

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

~ Patrick Lencioni

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

~ Bill Moyers

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

~ Miguel

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

~ Lou Reed

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

~ Roseanne Barr

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

~ Gwen Stefani

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

~ Shakira

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

~ Wayne Dyer

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

~ Joel Edgerton

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

~ Sigmund Freud

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

~ Charlie Puth