Ego Quotes

Karl Lagerfeld

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can
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.

Amit Kalantri

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

Tony Vigorito

Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.

Natalie Goldberg

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

Sakin Maharjan

I have my own ego, greed, love and a passion but sometime that same greed and ego kneels me down. In that moment I don't kneel and cry for my ego but I will clear a dirt over my pant and run for my passion. Ego can kill us but not your passion not your love. Move On!!!

E.A. Bucchianeri

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

John Armstrong

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Robert Frost

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Kale Burton

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.

Swami Dhyan Giten

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

Dawn Gluskin

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

Anthony Liccione

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Sammy Sutton

The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Deepak Chopra

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.
Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

Naveen Rajeev

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

Ram Mohan

I'm so honest, that in order to compliment you, I'd improve you first.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

Vladimir Nabokov

The square root of I is I.

Jess C. Scott

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Marcie Leeper

Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory.

Hamza Yusuf

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Paul Brunton

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Paul Brunton

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Toba Beta

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

Robin Macnaughton

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

D Nicole Williams

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

Taite Adams

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

Dee Remy

I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.

Dee Remy

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Aniekee Tochukwu

Atheism is a religion of egoism....they hate the name "God" so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.

Charles Bukowski

sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.

George Clooney

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Eckhart Tolle

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

John Piper

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

Megha Khare

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

Saru Singhal

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.

Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Following the light in the sky this Christmas season. It illuminates hearts hidden by egos.

Lik Hock Yap Ivan

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always.

Brian L. Weiss

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

Arzum Uzun

In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.

Arzum Uzun

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

Kemi Sogunle

When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me

Donna Lynn Hope

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?

Unarine Ramaru

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

Gopichand Lagadapati

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

Sol Luckman

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Susan Howatch

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.

Michael Levy

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

Ashok Kallarakkal

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Aditya Ajmera

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

Assegid Habtewold

You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation...

Unarine Ramaru

Let your work show off for you and not your ego.

Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies.

Lewis Black

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Sanhita Baruah

Congratulations.
You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector.
To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.
To cancel your subscription, go get a life.
Thank you.

Shreve Stockton

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

Michael Cunningham

I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having ‘no edge’ being simple and worse, harmless.

Carlos Castaneda

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

A.J. Darkholme

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Donna Lynn Hope

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

Dee Remy

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

Kellie Elmore

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

John Updike

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Aditya Ajmera

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

Veda Vyasa

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

Dag Hammarskjold

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.

Taite Adams

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

David Jascha

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Michael Singer

The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.

J.D. Salinger

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Jean-Yves Leloup

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

C.C. Campbell

The human Soul will only find its Light,
when the Ego gives its permission.

Peter Santos

To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.

Enza Vita

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....

Donna Goddard

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

Swami Dhyan Giten

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.

Gary Hopkins

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Saurabh Sharma

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

Saurabh Sharma

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Amit Kalantri

Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.

Aporva Kala

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

Jacqueline Ripstein

Fears hide within fears....

Valerie Martin

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.

A.J. Darkholme

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.

Dave Donovan

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

Donald Barthelme

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.

Ryan Lilly

I had a dream about you trying to parallel park your ego between two modest cars. The ego wouldn't fit, and those guys weren't putting up a fight, so let’s just say you made it work.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

The less you feed the ego, the stronger you will be.

Erich Fromm

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Kelley Eskridge

Unbelievable,” I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone’s breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.

Toba Beta

Always try coercing others proves one doesn't want to change himself.
(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).

John Of The Cross

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.

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