Top 100 Quotes About Men's Egos
#1. There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
Mignon McLaughlin
#2. For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.
Wangari Maathai
#3. See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.
Dr. John
#4. It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved
so easy to be loved
so hard to love.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa
#6. You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion ... constructively.
Cate Blanchett
#7. Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
Kendrick Lamar
#8. Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity.
Simone De Beauvoir
#10. Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
Caprice Bourret
#11. If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
Donna Lynn Hope
#12. When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.
Tommy Ramone
#13. You want enough to fill you up. You want more cocaine and more vodka. You want more of all of them, of men, of the things that stick out of them, egos and Marlboro reds and dirty words about banging your perfect ass.
Amanda Boyden
#14. Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Mike Krzyzewski
#15. At work, or anywhere in life, people should be a team, working for the best of all, not protecting individual egos.
Jay Woodman
#16. I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.
Ice Cube
#17. One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.
Charles Atlas
#18. Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
Mick Jagger
#20. You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new.
Carolina Herrera
#21. Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.
Jack McDevitt
#22. A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
Edward De Bono
#23. There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.
Kurt Rambis
#24. All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.
Aminatta Forna
#25. The challenges they had faced together had taught them humility - the need to subsume their individual egos for the sake of the boat as a whole - and humility was the common gateway through which they were able now to come together and begin to do what they had not been able to do before.
Daniel James Brown
#26. As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
Nicholas Meyer
#27. A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.
Philip Zaleski
#28. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#29. It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so much. I'm privileged. I'm privileged to be on stage with them. That's all I can say. They're extremely generous. There are no egos in the room at all.
Sean Mahon
#30. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.
Jeff Shaara
#31. Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.'
Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.'
Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Shake off the tonnage of old genetics, nitpicking naysayers and hand-me-down Egos hoarding junk in the back of your mind.
Be a Friday night liberty set loose on Monday morning.
Laurie Perez
#33. How much should the women sacrifice for satisfying the egos of men? The question grew in her heart and became an unbearable burden. It suffocated her. We are toys in the hands of men; they play with us to soothe their tired bodies and minds.
Tomichan Matheikal
#34. People deal with all sorts of obstacles at work. There is the fear of failure, plus confrontations with mindless bureaucracy, with other people's egos, with your own ego, with unethical practices, with incompetence, and a wide variety of issues related to race, gender, and sexual orientation
Lodro Rinzler
#35. We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things
led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.
Alyson Noel
#36. The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Emile M. Cioran
#37. I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.
Ellie Goulding
#38. What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.
Les Giblin
#39. Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
Henry A. Kissinger
#40. I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.
Neill Blomkamp
#41. When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.
Os Guinness
#42. FRACTURED FACTIONS
Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots
Kamil Ali
#43. Wanna dance?" he asked
"I guess you'll do. All the cute guys are already taken," I answered with a grin.
"You wound me with your callousness," he sighed dramatically, taking me in his arms.
"I do have a black belt in demolishing overstuffed egos.
Lani Woodland
#44. In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann
#45. God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God.
Rick Warren
#46. Guys that hot were used to getting any girl they wanted and, to me, relationships didn't have room for super-sized egos.
Veronica Blade
#47. Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.
John Cleese
#48. A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.
Ram Dass
#49. One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
Rufus Wainwright
#50. And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
Heston Blumenthal
#51. Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J.D. Salinger
#52. Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
Walter E. Williams
#53. She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.
Joseph Heller
#54. Men are such simple creatures. The pretty ones are my favorite, their egos so fun to crush into sparkly dust.
Kim Holden
#55. The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.
Clive Standen
#56. Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
Timothy Noah
#57. I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
Kenneth Clark
#58. Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
Frederick Lenz
#59. They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides,
Oscar Wilde
#60. Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
Belle De Jour
#62. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.
Haruki Murakami
#63. The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.
Michelle Rodriguez
#64. Most men haven't got a clue how to treat a woman, let alone respect her. You give women what you think they need and usually that falls way short of what's actually necessary. And then you fall back on fragile egos, guilting her into taking watered down affection that masquerades as a relationship.
Sydney Addae
#65. I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
Michael Keaton
#66. Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.
Jackie Warner
#67. If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
William Inge
#69. We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?
Dustin Hoffman
#70. Kim flicked her fingers in annoyance. "The scum suckers didn't want to hear they're not gods in the bedroom or that you could possibly want anything other than what they did." She snickered. "Really, Linda, you should be ashamed, crushing their little egos.
Cherise Sinclair
#71. There are some people who call themselves great achievers and they are also desperate for the spotlight just to quench their bloated egos.
Euginia Herlihy
#72. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#73. We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
Susan Cain
#74. Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?
Lance Secretan
#75. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Diane Black
#76. Of all the disciplines in science, paleoanthropology boasts perhaps the largest share of egos,
Bill Bryson
#77. The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell
#78. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.
Jana Oliver
#79. The day was beautiful, that first day in September, the kind of perfect day that made life something to savor, when hot dogs really were delicious, ice cream was served, and egos were forgotten.
Kate Alcott
#80. I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
John Oates
#81. I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
Xavier Dolan
#82. One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.
Eric Dezenhall
#83. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#84. A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
Lou Reed
#86. Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.
Scott Stapp
#87. Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open - not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
Elizabeth Lesser
#89. Multitracking keeps egos in check. If your boss has three pet projects in play, chances are she'll be open to unvarnished feedback about them, but if there's only one pet project, it will be harder for her to hear the truth. Her ego will be perfectly conflated with the project.
Chip Heath
#90. human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition
Stephen Harrod Buhner
#91. The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
Ram Dass
#92. You know men. We have delicate egos."
"I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate."
"No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos," Simon admitted.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small. Such gems can be anyone's.
Rob Dunn
#94. The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas ... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.
Laozi
#95. Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.
Sylvester Stallone
#96. As humans, we often let our egos rule our decisions. We let fear stop us from reaching our true potential. We forget about love. But the heart, it never forgets. No matter what happens, no matter how hard things get, it always remembers.
Liz Fenton
#97. 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 of the time.
Tony Hale
#98. Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).
Kenny Smith
#99. Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
Marianne Williamson
#100. Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
Jane Ripley
