Ego is an inflated feeling of pride in one’s superiority to others and if ego is not controlled on time it can ruin the person’s life. Although egoists appear to the world with a brave face, inside they are weak and suffer from insecurity. No one likes people with a big ego problem. However, you can overcome your ego problem if you want to get rid of it. Here is a collection of famous ego quotes for you to read and share with friends as well.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.
I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.
The dream to kill me will never be completed.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.
Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.
I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
I don't like my ego stroked too much.
My ego is sated.
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.
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
Where id was, there ego shall be.
The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.
Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.
There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law.
A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.
I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.
Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
Obviously everybody, if you're playing in the league, you've got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.
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.
You don't want to vilify your ego.
