Bad Ego Quotes

#1. Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole 'cousin' thing

Jen Frederick

#2. and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,

Elise Ballard

#3. I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

Donald Trump

#4. If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Fred Durst

#6. Well, if it comes down to it, you can just crush the bad guys with your enormous ego.

Jus Accardo

#7. A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.

Michael Beckwith

#8. Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

Chazz Palminteri

#9. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#10. Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Rick McCallum

#11. This is most people's reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

C. G. Jung

#13. The Josh I grew up around, with two legs and an ego that couldn't fit through the door? I didn't love him. I didn't even always like him." One corner of his mouth turned up. "This is who you are. The real you." I rested my forehead against his. "And I want you so fucking bad.

Heather Demetrios

#14. While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.

Pearl Zhu

#16. 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

#17. So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy.

Rajneesh

#18. perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Jacob M. Held

#19. Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Brad Moore

#20. All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

Ramana Maharshi

#21. A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

Jillian Michaels

#22. Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.

Robert Holden

#23. Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

Taite Adams

#24. Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

Don Dokken

#25. There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.

Charles Stross

#26. Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck

Sanhita Baruah

#28. I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!"

Michelle Rodriguez

#29. What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

Sathya Sai Baba

#31. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#32. If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.

Nolan Gould

#33. 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

#34. A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

Swami Dhyan Giten