Sentence examples for not for ego from inspiring English sources
In March she told Greta Van Susteren: "I'm still wondering who the heck is going to be out there with a servant's heart willing to serve the American people for the right reason, not for ego".
Free from the daily tasks of rearing helpless children, free to see and comprehend without vanity, loving life because we know we may have to leave it soon, we would embark on our journey to the stars not for ego or planting flags but only for information to transmit back to our grandchildren for their future explorations.
Not for ego, not for accolades, not for their own gain, not in a hurry.
Mr. Galbraith did not lack for ego, but he warned against reading his account as premonition.
"Art for art's sake," not "art for ego's sake," will make us deeply happy.
They need to beat the Devils for the points, the Rangers insist, not for their ego.
Here was someone utterly consistent to himself, who was not worried about being popular or cool but who did what he did not for the ego but for the music.
Luca Toni, Bayern's striker at the time, thought Van Gaal was suggesting ‚ "he had the balls" to drop anyone, yet the manager actually wanted to say that any substitutions were not for his ego but the sake of the team.
"I'm from Iron Mountain, Mich., a blue-collar town of hard-working people where there wasn't room for egos," he said.
I wasn't kidding when I mentioned working at Starbucks in a previous blog; I really would go and do part-time if it wasn't for my ego.
