Ego Quotes

1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down. — Joseph Campbell
We've got ego's like hairdos. — Ani DiFranco
Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still… — Larry Rosenberg
So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own… — John Gerstner
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge… — Peter Fonda
I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is… — Kenny G
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've… — Taylor Hackford
A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much… — Tony Hale
I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical… — Michael B. Jordan
I, in the end, make art for myself. — Anish Kapoor
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow… — Billie Burke
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted… — Dick Cavett
Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy. — Robert A. Heinlein
It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money… — David Breashears
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. — Aaron McGruder
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you… — John Galt
Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a… — Jarvis Cocker
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve. — Ken Adam
If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then… — Keith Johnstone
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked. — Louis Kronenberger
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free. — Christine Kane
There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is… — Rico Love
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition.… — Richard Rosen

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