Ego Quotes

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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… — Karen Armstrong
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. — Karen Armstrong
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality… — Alan Ball
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming… — Afrika Bambaataa
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… — Roseanne Barr
The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
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… — Anna Benson
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to… — Jello Biafra
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating… — Lewis Black
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of… — Bono
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the… — Danny Boyle
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. — John Bradshaw
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a… — Chris Brown
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge… — Kobe Bryant

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