Ego Quotes

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)
Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser. View quote
Donald Trump
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. View quote
Douglas Adams
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. View quote
W. H. Auden
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. View quote
Northrop Frye
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. View quote
Matthew Barney
The ego is not master in its own house. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Where id was, there shall ego be. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag. (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala)
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. View quote
Germaine Greer
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless. View quote
Thom Yorke
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. View quote
Bell hooks
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. View quote
Anton LaVey
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God". View quote
Anton LaVey
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. View quote
Hugh Downs
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss. (Helen Fielding)
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. View quote
Barry Gibb
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 great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. View quote
Chris Brown
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure. View quote
Aaron McGruder
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. View quote
Elizabeth Moon