Ego Quotes

"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." "Try to be wrong once in a while, it’ll do your ego good." "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am." "It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring." "When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer." "The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct." "Where id was, there ego shall be." "It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world." "Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another." "The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it." "The more famous you become, the less people will tell you about your faults" "The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three." "At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away." "Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world." "There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle." "The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."