Ego

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not ever Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence. Ego is then defined as incessant movements of grasping at a delusory notion of 'I' and 'mine,' self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activity that will sustain that false construction. The fact that we need to grasp at all and go on and on grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self does not inherently exist. The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own. This is a savage irony, considering that ego and its grasping are at the root of all our suffering. Yet ego is so convincing, and we have been its dupe for so long, that the thought that we might ever become egoless terrifies us.

- Sogyal Rinpoche Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

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The average person thinks he isn't.

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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

- Max Planck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

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I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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An egotist is a self-made man who worships his creator.

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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

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I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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At the New York Customs I have nothing to declare except my genius.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes