Top 100 Quotes About Ego
#1. Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed.
Jun Po Roshi
#2. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Anna Kendrick
#3. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh?
Jerry Spinelli
#4. I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
Natalie Maines
#5. The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
Rajneesh
#6. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#7. Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the universe. It is the process of making you separate from it, others, nature, and the universe.
Emily Maroutian
#8. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#9. The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
Stephen Covey
#10. because then they don't have to struggle with the need to die to the ego-driven self and become a humble servant of all people, which is what Jesus requires. It's much
Chuck Queen
#11. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#12. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the wounded male ego. It's as though Hollywood thinks I've got some choice in whether I like him or not. As if. I can't change who I am.
Kirsty Eagar
#13. You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
Mike Brearley
#14. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#15. The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
Brian Eno
#16. You either bend, or you break.
Suppress your ego to stay happy.
Manoj Arora
#17. The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
Ram Dass
#18. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
Bill Walsh
#19. The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#21. Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
Yasmin Mogahed
#22. As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
Vic Tayback
#24. When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution.
T. S. Eliot
#25. There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
Ramana Maharshi
#26. The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
Thomas Metzinger
#27. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#28. Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
Werner Herzog
#29. It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
Stephen Wolfram
#30. For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.
Wangari Maathai
#31. To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.
Osho
#32. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell
#33. I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Alan W. Watts
#34. I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.
Jason Newsted
#35. Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Carl Jung
#36. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.
I. Alan Appt
#37. The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
Alan Cohen
#38. Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.
Gemma Halliday
#39. All my compatriots are asses compared to me.
Paul Cezanne
#40. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.
Robert Thurman
#41. If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.
Paolo Soleri
#43. I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.
Christopher Walken
#44. The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..
Terence McKenna
#45. To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
Rico Love
#47. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.
Beth Johnson
#48. The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.
Stuart Wilde
#49. The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
Adyashanti
#50. Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.
Karen Marie Moning
#51. The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.
Christopher Dines
#52. To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
Alan Watts
#53. You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
Herb Kelleher
#54. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.
Aporva Kala
#55. At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.
Paul Feig
#57. The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
Ramakrishna
#58. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.
Saurabh Sharma
#59. Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation
Imran Khan
#60. Ego means "I am this body mind" ...
Clarity realise "I am That"
Whereas in real Just awareness is ...
Be Happy and keep smiling ...
Satish Kumar
#61. Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.
Doreen Virtue
#62. Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego ...
Igor Babailov
#63. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
#64. Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.
Jonathan Gottschall
#65. When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#66. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
Vince Lombardi
#67. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#68. I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#69. Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#70. Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#71. Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
Louie Anderson
#72. The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
D.T. Suzuki
#73. The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal.
Rumi
#74. The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#75. For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.
Julia Ormond
#76. I'll get you back for this, bitch," the male cupping his balls managed to grit out.
She gave him a patronising smile. "I know this must be painful for your ego. Try not to think of it as being defeated. Just think of it as being beat up by a girl.
Suzanne Wright
#77. Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
Rajneesh
#78. Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.
Oli Anderson
#80. The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
Marya Mannes
#81. There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.
Tom Robbins
#82. You have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221
Deborrah Cooper
#83. Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.
Deepak Chopra
#84. If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?
Donna Lynn Hope
#85. The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
Sammy Sutton
#86. I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.
Walter Isaacson
#87. What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless ... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
Dave Genn
#88. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#89. Having a man this good looking begging me for sex was the best therapy I could ask for.
Lucy Robinson
#90. If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#91. Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a
C. G. Jung
#93. Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#94. I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#95. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#96. Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.
Idries Shah
#97. Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
Kale Burton
#98. Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.
Oprah Winfrey
#99. The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.
Max Beesley
#100. The ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others
Eckhart Tolle
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