Here’s a selection of Ego Quotes, covering topics such as pride, males, females and self respect.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
Part of me suspects that i’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks i’m god almighty.
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “what else could this mean?.
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.
Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
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.
I don’t know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It’s self-destructive. It’s a problem on all levels – even regular people can have big ego problems.
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
I – Want – Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.
To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.
When you’re older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind.
Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.
Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
Ego gets you inches but it doesn’t get you impact.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as ‘bad’ or ‘good,’ ‘wrong’ or ‘right.’ It never fails to see ‘the little picture.
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.
In this story
i am the poet
you’re the poetry.
i am the poet
you’re the poetry.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
I live for myself and I answer to nobody.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.
I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
I don’t want to see you. I don’t like you. I don’t like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You’re impertinent. You’re too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Our ego is our silent partner…too often with a controlling interest.
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
The ego is a veil between humans and god’.”
“in prayer all are equal.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
It’s unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, ‘What do you think of yourself as?’ My answer is, ‘Nothing.
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.
It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.
Ego expands to fill the space not filled with knowledge.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‘we’ rather than the ‘I.’
Not everything is about you,” clary said furiously.
“possibly,” jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
“possibly,” jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. Blind to the rest who do.
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
Do you ever lose the ego?” westford asks me.
“yeah.” when his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
“yeah.” when his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
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