Ego And Selfishness Quotes

#1. The personal ego identifies with a very limited part of the self and prevents you from recognizing the largeness of who you really are. When you let go of your ego and selfishness, you realize you are both part and all of everything.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#2. In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#3. If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#4. I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!

Kourtney Kardashian

#5. Five of the most dangerous words I know: 'What's in it for me?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,
Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;
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Munindra Misra

#7. If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Bill Keller

#9. We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Criss Jami

#10. A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#11. Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment.

Swami Rama

#12. If I worship the fact that I don't worship anything, amongst other things what I'm worshipping is denial.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. I spend my life constantly calling in 'imaginary' debts that aren't owed to me in order to avoid the 'real' debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Jane Austen

#18. I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Robert Nozick

#19. Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that May or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

Chris Hadfield

#20. Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Arthur Helps

#21. If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#22. Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. But selfishness can take on many disguises. It can also be about defending and trying to prove your own belief system while denying there could be value in the beliefs of others.

Karlyle Tomms

#24. If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough