Top 1200 Ego And Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

I've totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me."

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

When you're from the islands, that's that pride.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

I have such pride in my job.

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

We take pride in what we do.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

All complaining comes from pride.

Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

I have a lot of pride.

When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.