Ego
Definition: A person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
Number of Quotes: 19
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson
Some time when you're feeling important
Some time when your ego's in bloom
Some time when you feel you are
The best qualified man in the room,
Some time when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles the soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water
Place your hands in it up to your wrists
Take them out and the hole that remains
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.
You may splash all you like as they enter
You may stir up the water galore
But take them out and in just a moment
It will look just the same as before.
The moral of this is quite simple
Just do the best that you can.
Be proud of yourself but remember
There is no indispensable man.
Cassell's Humorous Quotations
Anonymous
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.
Irving Berlin
That favourite subject, Myself.
James Boswell
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Not everything is about you,
Clary said furiously.
Possibly,
Jace said,
but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
I was delighted to see that you thought I was as good as I thought I was.
Noël Coward
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Bury your ego. Don't be the star. Be the star maker!
Bud Hadfield
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on
the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that, when your position fails, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point
is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas
of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
Shannon Purser
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
Mark Twain
I like to dress egos.
Gianni Versace
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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