Strong Ego Quotes

#1. True love has no opposite. If your "love" has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a more complete and deeper sense of self, a need that the other person temporarily meets.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

Richard Rohr

#4. A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Maxwell Maltz

#5. Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Albert Einstein

#6. That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Tucker Carlson

#7. When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

Robert Holden

#8. Those minute seconds, flip minutes into hours; hours turn into days, weeks, years, and all these happen in a fraction of a life; placed meagerly, amid this endless Universe.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#9. Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Dick Cavett

#10. It is our nature to be strong and independent. Yet, there is no room for the ego in suffering. This stripping of my ego opens the doors to authentic relating to others. As I am drawn closer to others, I am experiencing God in the here and now.

Timothy J. Keller

#11. You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. one of my core management beliefs: If you don't try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.

Ed Catmull

#13. But it's scary, isn't it? Not having something to hate and blame for all your unhappiness.

Carolyn Brown

#14. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

Madonna Ciccone

#15. You must be Lilith,"
"You have got to be fucking with me.

Rachel Spanswick

#16. People are attracted to confident people, and there is a direct correlation between confidence and respectful curiosity.

Jeremie Kubicek

#17. When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

Thubten Yeshe

#18. This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity - only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem.

Rajneesh

#19. Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Byron Katie

#20. It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

Patricia Field

#21. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Marilynne Robinson