Egos Quotes

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Crazy, Children

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas Sowell

State, Welfare, Masses

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
Mick Jagger

Alone, Giving, Enough

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts

Person, Unselfish, Efforts

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James McGreevey

Love, Freedom, Live

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
Donald Rumsfeld

Good, Government, Before

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Emile M. Cioran

Try, Rest, Ourselves

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
Mike Krzyzewski

Ego, Individual, Though

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
Maynard James Keenan

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
Heston Blumenthal

Learning, Big, Keep

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
Carly Fiorina

Sometimes, Off, Motives

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
Jesse Jackson

God, End, Enough

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Mindy Kaling

Comedy, Writers, Fragile

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa

Home, Down, Others

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.
Michael Haneke

Work, Trying, Seriously

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
Kendrick Lamar

Creative, Wanted, Start

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
Hilary Duff

Politics, Gossip, Done

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
Damon Albarn

Nothing, Accept, Anyone

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
Nigel Lythgoe

Dreams, Great, End

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
Big Boi

Music, Attitude, Nothing

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
Caprice Bourret

Yourself, Everyone, Again

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Mary Lou Retton

Put, Line, Fragile

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.
Eric Roberts

Maybe, Bigger, Bacon

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.
Scott Stapp

Poor, Wanting, Creed

I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
Laura Prepon

Big, Around, Stand

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.
Ethan Suplee

Gentlemen, start your egos.
Billy Crystal

Start, Gentlemen

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Bill Kreutzmann

Family, End, Real

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.
Dwayne Hickman

Country, Away, Between

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