Selfish Ego Quotes

#1. You have two options whether to speed up or block your soul's intentions. You have a choice: to act out of selfish ego or as a loving soul.

Hina Hashmi

#2. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

#3. The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."

Sharon Gannon

#4. If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#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. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#9. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?

Shannon L. Alder

#10. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. 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

#12. If I'm my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Sharon Salzberg

#14. 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

#15. I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Amber Valletta

#16. I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

K.d. Lang

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. 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

#19. The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's your actual selflessness. It's his ego that he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish.

Ayn Rand

#21. Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Greg LeMond

#23. Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself.

T.F. Hodge

#24. When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Stephen Richards

#25. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Criss Jami

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

Vineet Raj Kapoor

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Matthew Kelly