Quotes by Ego You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without. Gary Renard forgivingegoinspirational To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego. Gary Oldman egojobsmen I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success Gavin DeGraw handleego The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase. Gelek Rimpoche egosuccessfulkings That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature. Gelek Rimpoche egorealtalking The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves. Gelek Rimpoche egohelpingmean In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego. Gautama Buddha egopracticeviews I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had. Gary Vaynerchuk egoaccomplishmenthumility I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press - a neighborhood rag - kept submitting his columns for a Pulitzer. We laughed and laughed at his ego. He finally won. Gene Weingarten growing-upegowinning Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. Geoffrey Rush egowould-behair When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it. Frederick Lenz egostarsbeautiful Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. Frederick Lenz weight-problemsegoself The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. George Meredith patriotismegowar Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time. George Clooney egoablecountry I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other. George Ogilvie egoseathinking Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. George V. Higgins narcissismegoart Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.' George Steiner egoplayerdoe The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go. Gerald Jampolsky egoweaknesswatches The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can. Georgia O'Keeffe egosimplefacts If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least. George Saunders buttonsegowould-be«1819202122232425262728»
