Ego Quotes

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"Where id was, there shall ego be."

"The ego is not master in its own house."

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."

"People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."

"Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury."

"It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share."

"All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle"

"The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion."

"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

"Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons."

"It was easy because I'm not a guy who trips over his ego,"

"I would hope that self-indulgence is not something that we're concerned about at this point. Personal ego has to be given up a little bit out of respect for one another."

"I've got one of the strongest backcourts in the state and there's no ego with them. If one guy's scoring a lot, there's no telling when somebody might run off 10 (points) or four straight. Those guys keep fighting. It's never about one guy -- it's about the team."

"It's not an ego thing. It just seems like an interesting thing to do. I'd like to go down to the Philippines and say, 'Hey, it's me, Joey Santiago from The Pixies. Give me a script, I want to be in a movie."

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

"It is helping some, ... Ego says you want to be out there playing the whole game, but reality is you can't play your best in the fourth quarter when you're exhausted basically."

"You can't afford, though, to have an ego or your own agenda in a game like this. All you want to do is be on the pitch controlling what's happening."