Ego Quotes
Karl Lagerfeld
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.
4612 Amit Kalantri
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.
4456 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.
2921 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.
2199 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.
1868 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!!!
4358 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.
1436 John Armstrong
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
2634 Robert Frost
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
4406 Michael Bassey Johnson
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
1995 Kale Burton
Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
4145 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.
4787 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.
4297 Dawn Gluskin
You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.
2961 Anthony Liccione
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.
2336 Sammy Sutton
The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
3861 John Lennon
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
2097 Deepak Chopra
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
3811 Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.
Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.
4510 Naveen Rajeev
Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.
3227 Ram Mohan
I'm so honest, that in order to compliment you, I'd improve you first.
1019 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.
1423 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.
1572 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.
1208 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.
4699 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.
4056 Robin Macnaughton
Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.
3004 Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
2975 D Nicole Williams
Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
3587 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.
2108 Dee Remy
I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.
1150 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.
4039 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.
4582 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.
4233 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.
1151 George Clooney
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
4438 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.
3602 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.
1873 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.
1096 Saru Singhal
Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.
3269 Jennifer Ritchie Payette
Following the light in the sky this Christmas season. It illuminates hearts hidden by egos.
4242 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.
2467 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.
4601 Arzum Uzun
In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
3230 Kemi Sogunle
When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me
2397 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?
3816 Unarine Ramaru
If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.
1954 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!
3345 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.
4367 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.
3601 Michael Levy
A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.
1422 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'.
1231 Aditya Ajmera
Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.
2431 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...
2909 Jennifer Ritchie Payette
Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies.
1134 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.
3613 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.
3672 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.
1051 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.
4173 Carlos Castaneda
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.
3831 A.J. Darkholme
Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.
4625 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.
1875 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
1898 Kellie Elmore
Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
2212 John Updike
No act is so private it does not seek applause.
3887 Aditya Ajmera
Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.
3336 Veda Vyasa
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
2515 Taite Adams
...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
3004 David Jascha
The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.
3928 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.
4113 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.
1390 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.
2755 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)
1991 C.C. Campbell
The human Soul will only find its Light,
when the Ego gives its permission.
2738 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.
1598 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.
1328 Kathleen Dowling Singh
Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....
4151 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.
4089 Gary Hopkins
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
2843 Saurabh Sharma
Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.
1724 Saurabh Sharma
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
4515 Amit Kalantri
Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.
1239 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.
3567 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.
2360 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.
1940 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.
4990 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.
3468 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.
2887 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.
1798 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.
1604 Toba Beta
Always try coercing others proves one doesn't want to change himself.
(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).
2158 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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