Top 100 My Ego Quotes
#1. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Anna Kendrick
#2. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
Bill Walsh
#3. It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Stephen Wolfram
#4. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
Vince Lombardi
#5. I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#6. The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.
Max Beesley
#7. My ego mind - my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love - would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.
Marianne Williamson
#8. Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.
Chris Matakas
#9. My ego only needs a good rhythm section
Miles Davis
#10. I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.
Wayne Dyer
#11. When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.
Tim Allen
#12. ... and then showed Owen the reservation. Four people.
"But we're only two," Owen said.
"Yeah, but my ego needs more space than that.
Aleksandr Voinov
#13. It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
Brandon Routh
#14. If I'm going to be ruled by a high-minded pretty-faced troll, it might as well be you."
"I'm glad to hear it," I said, trying not to smile. "Who knows what would happen to my ego if you decided to abandon me.
Danielle L. Jensen
#15. You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
Jennifer Estep
#16. I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.
Elvis Presley
#17. Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego - my sense of belonging to this universe - and made all else seem insignificant by comparison. "It's
Hugh Howey
#18. In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
Elizabeth Moon
#19. I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.
Virginia Madsen
#20. Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.
Maria V. Snyder
#21. 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
#22. It's hard to stop a war once it starts. Once the sword is drawn, blood's going to be spilled. This doesn't have anything to do with theory or logic, or even my ego. It's just a rule, pure and simple.
Haruki Murakami
#23. Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.
Max Beesley
#24. I'm supposed to quote myself? Seriously? I know I'm a clever wench, but modesty muffles my ego.
K.Z. Snow
#25. I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields.Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.
Kanye West
#26. I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.
Laura Benanti
#27. What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.
Gotye
#28. my ego and pride holds me back from loving you to the fullest
Acha Salim
#29. Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.
Bijan
#30. I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field
#32. As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.
Paul Stanley
#33. What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
MacDonald Harris
#34. I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.
Joss Whedon
#35. Did Ellis hurt like I did my first time? I hoped not. I tried desperately to prep him as best I could, but there was still no guarantee that today he wouldn't feel the repercussions, despite my careful planning. To his advantage, and to the detriment of my ego, I was on the low side of average.
Wade Kelly
#36. I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.
Jeremy Luke
#37. I guess I just struggle with belonging to any organization. I always feel like I should be able to do it on my own. My ego tells me I'm better than all this ... I want to rebel against it, though of course, I don't really have any options.
Nic Sheff
#38. If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
Kathleen Turner
#39. I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
Gavin DeGraw
#40. My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
Randy Jackson
#41. A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.
James MacDonald
#42. I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.
Rumi
#43. I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
Rhys Ifans
#44. No, not my spirit, just my ego, and my arms, and my chest, and my back, but luckily they are just bruised." Squanto responded, "I fear you may not be so lucky.
Stacy Buck
#45. Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
Greg LeMond
#46. I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.
Ram Dass
#47. Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.
Jason Mraz
#48. Maybe it's my ego. Maybe I crave someone who will never be my rival.
Sylvia Plath
#49. The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.
Drake
#50. What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.
Madonna Ciccone
#51. I am not here for me
I am not here to promote my ego
I am here to serve the Great Spirit
To be a voice for those afraid to speak
To be movement for those who are stuck
I am here to reveal a mystery
To learn something new about myself
Holly Near
#52. The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
Eddie Marsan
#54. The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
Heather Matarazzo
#55. I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Whitney Houston
#56. I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#57. Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art.
Debasish Mridha
#59. My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.
Alex Ebert
#60. 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
#61. I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
Paul Kelly
#62. This is good for my ego after, like, two years of seeing Italian guys in pink sweaters and orange pants and, like, pulling it off. You know what I'm saying?
Tom Rachman
#63. It does hurt my ego that you sit there all itty-bitty and cute as hell, and you must be more dangerous than I will ever be.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#64. I shall be perfectly content to spend time with Mr Darcy and enjoy his manner of flattering my ego, for I must confess he does it very well.
P.O. Dixon
#65. Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.
Oleg Cassini
#66. I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
Steven Spielberg
#68. What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that.
Debasish Mridha
#69. My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.
Ilona Andrews
#70. I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#71. I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego as tepid as possible. Because you can get a big head walking around here.
Ralph Sarchie
#72. In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#74. I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.
David Bowie
#75. One of my biggest Achilles' heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there's hope for everyone.
Kanye West
#76. What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
Chuck Palahniuk
#77. I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
Gabriel Macht
#78. My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.
Herbie Mann
#79. She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as compliments until I realised I was too old, too fat, too tall, too dull, too everything to ever find love.
Tyne O'Connell
#80. People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
Wilt Chamberlain
#81. There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.
Johnny Carson
#82. The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.
Cory Booker
#83. I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.
Frantz Fanon
#84. I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
Kate Levering
#85. I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
Amber Valletta
#86. If I paid too much attention to naysayers or let encouragers bloat my ego, I'd lose focus on what mattered: the company.
Anonymous
#87. I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.
Richard Gough
#88. If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
Douglas Adams
#91. I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
Nolan Bushnell
#92. Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. The
Huston Smith
#93. The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.
Iyanla Vanzant
#94. As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.
David Alan Basche
#95. I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.
Adriana Lima
#97. Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.
Douglas Harding
#98. The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.
Joe De Sena
#99. I like honesty more than my ego does.
Adam Santo
#100. Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.
Aleks Paunovic
