Quotes About Ego

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke


Gentlemen, start your egos.  ~ Billy Crystal


Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.  ~ Benjamin Disraeli


If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance.  ~ John Andrew Holmes


Most people's self-esteem isn't low enough.  ~ Howard Ogden


The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.  ~ Quentin Crisp


Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows.  ~ Helen Nielsen


An inferiority complex would be a blessing if only the right people had it.  ~ Alan Reed


The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.  ~ Malcolm de Chazal


What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonder, how is all life to become important to him.  ~ Sherwood Anderson


Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.  ~ Penelope Keith


We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.  ~ Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach


Is a narcissist's suicide a crime of passion.  ~ Howard Ogden


Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.  ~ Donald J. Trump


I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.  ~ Don Marquis


Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.  ~ Frank Leahy


He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.  ~ Susan Sontag