Top 100 Quotes About Egos
#1. When we recognize the fraud for what it is, we feel incredibly stupid. Something more than our bank accounts is damaged - our egos are damaged. As a result, it's almost impossible for the marketer to regain our trust.
Seth Godin
#2. People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.
Andrew Samuels
#4. Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft
Robin Sharma
#5. I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
Laura Prepon
#6. Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.
Crystal Evans
#7. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
Aberjhani
#8. Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.
Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.
Hugh Prather
#10. The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.
Blair Hull
#11. It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.
Chester Bennington
#12. The fact is that Santa and Satan are alter egos, brothers; they have the same origin.
Phyllis Siefker
#13. I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.
Kenny Smith
#14. The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.
Mark Waid
#15. Pride entices us to favor people who build up our egos. Everyone wants to feel accepted and loved. The best way to rid your life of pride is to surround yourself with people who care for you for the right reasons and not just to stroke your ego. Pride is
Charles F. Stanley
#16. I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
Zach Galligan
#17. As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
Ethan Suplee
#18. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
Jack Canfield
#19. I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
Tony Fernandes
#20. You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. People talk about egos as if it were objects.
Bob Dylan
#22. Do girls need kid-glove treatment? I thought they were tougher than that."
Dan's grin was approving. "Most of us are. Some of us are like boys, though, and have delicate egos.
Nora Sakavic
#24. Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ...
M.F.K. Fisher
#25. ... life isn't a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ...
Renee Paule
#26. His success in dealing with the strong egos of the men in his cabinet suggests that in the hands of a truly great politician the qualities we generally associate with decency and morality - kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy - can also be impressive political resources.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#27. Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.
Robert A. Heinlein
#28. They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
William S. Burroughs
#29. What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
Chris Hani
#30. Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.
T. Harv Eker
#31. The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
Big Boi
#33. I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.
Dwayne Hickman
#34. To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James McGreevey
#35. Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.
Martin Buber
#36. There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.
Sheila Johnson
#37. You imagine that, going into such a huge American series, you will come up against a lot of egos, but it was the complete opposite on '24,' a dream team.
Emily Berrington
#38. We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.
Billy Graham
#39. When you got a group like G-Unit ... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.
Tony Yayo
#40. Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.
Susan Strasberg
#42. But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human being? Who the cleverest? Who the strongest? Who loves the most? Are we three immense egos fighting for domination or for love, or are these things mixed?
Anais Nin
#43. I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#44. Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld
#45. Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.
A.J. Darkholme
#46. I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.
Colin Firth
#47. 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 and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
David Breashears
#48. The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door.
Tom Coughlin
#49. There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
Leon Charney
#50. All my battles were with male egos. I'm just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
Joni Mitchell
#51. SINK OR SWIM ALERT
Folks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egos
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#52. Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
Paul Arden
#53. Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.
Oswald Spengler
#54. Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
Ram Dass
#55. Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
Ray Harryhausen
#56. The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
Raymond Chandler
#57. The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.
Joe Vitale
#58. The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.
Lee Child
#59. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph Campbell
#60. After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!
Adam Nevill
#61. Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.
Assegid Habtewold
#62. We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should ... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
Bill T. Jones
#63. What did the soup say to the tea plate?
"You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#64. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#65. Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
Sara Paretsky
#66. A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
Oscar Isaac
#67. There aren't many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It's our fault as voters. We don't demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve - on both sides of the aisle.
Brad Thor
#68. Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.
Rod Steiger
#69. When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
Willard Scott
#70. Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
Jack Horner
#71. As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan
#72. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That
Joseph Delaney
#73. If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved.
Toni Morrison
#75. The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.
Laozi
#76. Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?
Girdhar Joshi
#77. When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels
#78. A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and - with luck - for one shared moment put aside their differences, their dislikes, their egos and their rivalries, harnessing their energies towards a common goal.
David Halberstam
#79. Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
Hilary Duff
#80. Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply trying to hide their fragile egos.
Emma Paul
#81. American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.
Eric G. Wilson
#82. The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Donald Barthelme
#83. It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#84. Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their egos.
Jessica Thompson
#85. You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.
Rajneesh
#86. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.
H.L. Mencken
#87. No one enters politics to serve their community. They do it to feed their own rampant egos. Self-interest remains the number one priority. A politician's sole objective is to win office, and everything else, including what's best for the country and its citizens, comes a distant second. Marlowe's
Nathan Allen
#88. Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.
Ken Wilber
#89. Imagine what we would accomplish together if we left our egos at the door.
Robert M. Drake
#90. Authors, I would soon learn, sometimes bite when their egos are underfed.
Jason Epstein
#91. I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.
Solange Knowles
#92. Financial bitterness could not eat too deeply into Mack and the boys, for they were not mercantile men. They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost.
John Steinbeck
#93. The real achievers are not hungry to achieve their desires just to boost their own egos. They know their duty is to leave the traceable footprints for the world to benefit.
Euginia Herlihy
#94. Oh, we're all sluts. I'm liberated enough to cut me some notches on my bedpost, if you catch my drift? No, those girls are shallow. It's why they have to work in a flock. They can't go solo because their fragile egos can't handle the stress. I have no patience for weak girls
Bijou Hunter
#95. A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.
'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.
Helene Young
#96. Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Mindy Kaling
#97. In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who aren't using their true egos.
J.D. Salinger
#98. A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.
Daniel Humm
#99. Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.
Rajneesh
#100. Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.
Frank Lampl
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