1,899 Quotes About Ego

She is pretending like she doesn't miss you, you're pretending you don't give a damn, ego is a hell of a drug.

Is that to say that managing your image isn't important? Of course not. Early in your career, you'll notice that you jump on every opportunity to do so. As you become more accomplished, you'll realize that so much of it is a distraction from your work - time spent with reporters, with awards, and with marketing are time away from what you really care about. Who has time to look at a picture of himself? What's the point?

Leaders like Belichick and Merkel know that steak is what wins games and moves nations forward. Sizzle, on the other hand, makes it harder to make the right decisions.

The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can't bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can't absorb a few blows, it wasn't worth anything in the first place.

Sometimes life requires you to swallow pride and let go off ego. At such times you must willfully do so to let you grow.

He asks if she’s okay and she says she is. Nobody hears the pause before his question when he wants to tell her instead that he misses her. As does her silent cry, fall upon deaf ears for she wants to tell him instead that she isn’t.

To seek and hold political power is to seek something that distorts self-conception, enlarging the ego as it corrupts the brain.

Our egos will be the death of us unless we commit to the death of our egos. In that sense, taking something to its grave is what saves us from one.

In a war of ego, the loser always wins.