Best Ego Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's part of us almost that keeps us in check. It's a voice where you can challenge it and make sure that it keeps you on the right path, ego unchecked is the problem.”

“Some guys that I'm a fan of, I don't mind reaching out trying to work with them. I don't go into this with ego. It's all music first with me.”

“There're so many men walking around with confidence that's unearned. If women do the same, they're monsters. I'm confident in my abilities, confident that I'm funnier than most people. That's not even my ego, that's years in the game.”

“Don't have an ego. You can get just as over and just as popular losing.”

“I would not have been capable of doing that early in my career. Putting my ego in my back pocket and saying let's do this for the team.”

“A lot of times, fighters we kind of fall victim to our own ego like it's sparring day, I need to go hard. I need to show these guys what's up. I need to push because everybody else is doing it.”

“I think no one is without ego. It exists in all of us.”

“I don't choose to take time away from my family, work, and school to engage in name-calling and participate in petty arguments for the sake of pacifying someone's ego.”

“I don't go with ego: If I wanna work with a guy, I'm hitting him up. Because it's for the greater good of the project.”

“What is it about politics, though, which makes people from the same tribe tear each other apart? Perhaps ego and ambition have a part to play.”

“The Mark Jackson I knew was the one I heard on TV. I didn't know what to expect. I was really worried about him having a huge ego and that it would be all about him. It's been completely the opposite. It's never about him.”

“The motivations for owning a club are varied. Ego always plays a part. Some buy them just because they can, some for the kudos and some to own an iconic British institution.”

“There is no ego whatsoever in Salman.”

“I had a bit of an ego when I was younger, thinking I could be the best at both jiu-jitsu and fighting, but as I got older, I realized that the six months I was putting into MMA, another guy was putting into jiu-jitsu on a full time basis.”

“What's important to me is that the ego hasn't taken over.”

“Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.”

“I don't think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I'm honest and I say that with no ego, that's the honest truth. I know what I do and I'm self aware.”

“I've never encountered any star ego.”

“Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.”

“One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.”

“Basically, I played football to share with others, to excel together, to achieve a goal. After, we all have our ego, our pride and our personality. But all alone, in football, it does not work.”

“I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.”

“I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.”

“The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.”

“Being a cook, there's always pressure - not for your ego but for people to love your food.”

“Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?”

“That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.”

“Competition keeps you young. It motivates you. It challenges your ego. Messi and Ronaldo have this with each other.”

“I hope I don't have an ego.”

“You have to have an ego to play for any club; you have to look after yourself.”

“I don't think I have an ego problem.”

“If I think the role is worth it and the director is someone I hold in high regard, I have no hassles. Why let ego come in the way of work?”

“There is a thin difference between confidence and ego.”

“I'm not one to get a big ego - I think it's an Aussie thing, I just laugh.”

“CrossFit is amazing if you can leave your ego at the door.”

“Eventually my ego is going to be the size of the planet Earth.”

“If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it.”

“MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it's a sport that's not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it's tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It's not just a game. You get beaten physically.”

“Everyone has an ego. Even someone that doesn't play one minute has an ego.”

“My ego has been in check for a long time.”

“The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.”

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

“I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.”

“I appreciate when people give us some positive feedback, and in the past, when I was younger, I might have allowed it to get to my head and have a bit of an ego.”

“When you truly believe in your idea or your company or yourself, then you don't need to have a huge ego or a huge personality.”

“When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.”

“Every great player has a big character. I don't know any player with a lot of quality who just has quality - you have to have an ego and character to be the main person on the pitch.”

“You cannot outperform your ego.”

“I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.”

“I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.”

“My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.”

“As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!”

“The greatest impact of 'We Are the World' seems to have been the video, which lets us see the singers take their turns at the microphone without any sense of star ego.”

“To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.”

“I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.”

“When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.”

“I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.”

“Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.”

“I've totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.”

“The only time I had an ego is I when wanted to have a reverse Undertaker record at WrestleMania, and they messed it up!”

“I don't like my ego stroked too much.”

“Instead of a passion for the Yankees or fly-fishing or birding, I want to pass on to my sons a love of books, music, and art. I accept that this is partly about the gratification of my own ego, but it's also one of the only ways I know of making a rich life. That's what we all want for our progeny.”

“You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.”

“I'm such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it's really important for me to keep doing it. It takes the ego out of acting, whereas movies tend to involve it.”

“When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.”

“Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.”

“I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.”

“I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.”

“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.”

“It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.”

“The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'”

“I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!”

“You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.”

“The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.”

“Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.”

“I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.”

“I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.”

“A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.”

“I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.”

“Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.”

“If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.”

“As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.”

“Art has more ego to it than what I do.”

“The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.”

“I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.”

“Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.”

“I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.”

“My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?”

“Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.”

“Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.”

“I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself.”

“I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'”

“As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.”

“I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.”

“I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.”

“I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.”

“There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.'”

“I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.”

“Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.”

“If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.”