Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Barker

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Arthur Helps

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Ava Gardner

I am deeply superficial.

There are no egos on this team. No problems. Everyone is happy when someone else does well.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Dick Cavett

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

Eberhard Weber

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Ball

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Byron Katie

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

Catherine Ashton

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Chogyam Trungpa

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Chogyam Trungpa

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Lesley Manville

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.

Jermaine Dye

We don't have any egos on this team. I think that was what was really special about this club,

Bill Maher

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Benjamin Hoff

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

Bob Marley

Every need got an ego to feed.

Charlie Sheen

Get your egos off the battlefield.

Bill Moyers

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Carl Jung

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

Billy Ocean

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Billy Porter

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

John Oates

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

Sathya Baba

The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego.

Lee Williams

In any individual sport you're going to have an ego,

Carl Paladino

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

I'm 29. I lost my ego somewhere around my fifth season.