Ego Protection Quotes

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

I am not a loser. It's not that I have a ego, but I do believe in winning.

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

Women don't try to use me.

Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.

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

It's tricky for me to take a dive, though. If I fall down under the slightest kick, I'm going to look stupid falling down like I've been shot.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Many, many people exaggerate their accomplishments, blame their failures on others, and misrepresent reality in order to make themselves look better. This behavior is ubiquitous—sometimes intentional, more often subconscious. In ordinary life, we tolerate it, mutely or not, hoping that we are not as bad as the person whose lies we are listening to.

Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.