Quotes tagged ‘Ego’

“Don’t say you’re tough. You know what the worst thing is? People that say they’re tough. Because usually the people who say they’re tough are the least tough. So don’t say you’re tough.”

— Donald Trump, iran-times.com

“Are you a Chief who wants to be top surgeon, or are you a Chief who wants to be president? 'Cause if it's the latter, take your ego, shove it in a cupboard somewhere, and start acting presidential.”

— Bill Rotko, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com

“Nobody takes things more personally than me. When somebody says something personal about me, I hate them for the rest of my life. It’s probably wrong, but I hate people. . . . Do you understand that? I hate ’em. . . . I never recover from it.”

— Donald Trump, imdb.com

“Every cliche has a kernel of truth to it, and on this show, I guess I'm that kernel.”

— Martin Mull, youtube.com

“Life comes for all of us. And it comes hardest for the ones who think they're above it all.”

— Steven Canals, Blanca Rodriguez, Mj Rodriguez, imdb.com

“We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had Fring, we had a lab, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork! You could have shut your mouth, cooked, and made as much money as you ever needed. It was perfect! But no! You just had to blow it up! You, and your pride and your e…”

— Thomas Schnauz, Mike Ehrmantraut, Jonathan Banks, imdb.com

“The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“My ego take cheap shots, can't believe how she speak to me. She talks like it's neat pushing buttons like key fobs. Well good day, bitch: I'm writing this beat knocks, tryna pen classics like Reeboks or Greek thoughts or a Fleet Fox, and teach a good message like Aesop's.”

— Sammus, open.spotify.com

“The most ignorant are the most conceited.”

— Horace Mann, amazon.com

“There was a kind of intoxication in being lord of a visible world (albeit a miniature one) and determining the flow of its events.”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“I will not become a page in someone else’s history book.”

— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Stannis Baratheon, Stephen Dillane, imdb.com

“Some days you feel pretty and then you hate every single photo of yourself from an event and that’s a great ego check, let me tell you.”

— V.E. Schwab, twitter.com

“Without me in it, Gotham City suffers.”

— Kid Cudi, billboard.com

“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.”

— Gordon Ramsay, vanityfair.com

“People that really know me, they adore me.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo, bleacherreport.com

“In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo, en.wikiquote.org

“I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history—in the good and the bad moments.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo, en.wikiquote.org

“I think that because I am rich, handsome and a great player people are envious of me. I don’t have any other explanation.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo, en.wikiquote.org

“What do we make of this guy? Does the fact that he had sex with a movie star outside marriage, does that somehow negate all of his achievements? Or do those traits that made him cheat ego, intensity, drive do they also lead him to achieve?”

— Anya Epstein, Noah Solloway, Dominic West, imdb.com