Your Ego Will Destroy You Quotes

#1. Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

Marisha Pessl

#2. It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis)
She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#4. It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

Ali Sina

#5. You didn't love her. You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love.

Callie

#6. The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. "To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Idris Elba

#9. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

Germaine Greer

#11. Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.

Donald O'Donovan

#12. I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Chris Stapleton

#13. Never touch another man's button.

Blake Shelton

#14. Marriage is a commitment that requires effort and communication. Sometimes, it also requires a little creativity. Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So be the bigger person skip the 'E' and let it 'Go'.

Pravin Agarwal

#15. Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.

Ryan Holiday

#16. Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

Ned Vizzini

#17. It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

Roddy Doyle

#18. And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

George W. Bush

#19. Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.

Samael Aun Weor

#20. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

Anton Chekhov

#21. Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.

Orson Scott Card

#22. The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

James Van Der Beek

#23. Anyone with a way of thinking that sees and recognizes nothing but their own "EGO" has the potential to destroy their "SELF".

Nimet Erenler Gulkoku

#24. Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.

Marianne Williamson