Ego Quotes
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Ego Quotes & Sayings
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Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
— Matthieu Ricard
The ego's blocking the light from coming.
— Sandra Cisneros
You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
— Jennifer Estep
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
— Robert Adams
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
— Dallas Willard
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
— Frederick Lenz
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
— Joss Whedon
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
— Miguel
Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.
— T.F. Hodge
When in doubt, flatter the ego.
— Jessica Clare
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
He'd always had too God damn big an ego. He
— Larry A. Winters
My ego only needs a good rhythm section
— Miles Davis
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.
— Nikki Rowe
Get your egos off the battlefield.
— Charlie Sheen
Do things the ego does not like to do.
— Stuart Wilde
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
— Terence McKenna
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.
— Peter Santos
Keep your ego from interfering with you search for the truth.
— Vincent Ruggiero
I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
— Ram Dass
Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
— Colin Clark
Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.
— Wayne Dyer
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
Being disciplined with an ego that makes you to feel like you can never be disciplined by any other person is "indiscipline".
— Israelmore Ayivor
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
— Richard Rohr
If I paid too much attention to naysayers or let encouragers bloat my ego, I'd lose focus on what mattered: the company.
— Anonymous
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
A small ego equals A BIG HEART - Manprit Kaur
— Manprit Kaur
Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.
— Robin Macnaughton
All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.
— Joko Beck
The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.
— Frederik Pohl
Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi
I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.
— Jim Beaver
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
— Anthony De Mello
The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.
— Christopher Dines
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
— Steve Perry
If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
To enter your true self,
check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
— Eckhart Tolle
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
— C. Terry Warner
The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
— Ramana Maharshi
Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
— Vic Tayback
This is not suitable for me"- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense.
— Dada Bhagwan
To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
— Jerrod Carmichael
Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?
— Lauryn Hill
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
— Ramakrishna
Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.
— Swami Vivekananda
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.
— Dee Remy
One side of his lips quirked up in a sexy smirk. "Got a cure for
that frustration you got going on," he said.
"Got a cure for your ego? — Jamie Farrell
that frustration you got going on," he said.
"Got a cure for your ego? — Jamie Farrell
Where id was, there ego shall be.
— Sigmund Freud
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.
— Paolo Soleri
Put your ego aside and play as a team.
— Sonny Bono
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.
— Jim McGrath
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
— Mike Tyson
Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.
— Rajneesh
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
My ego is sated.
— George Michael
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
— Eva Zeisel
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
She has a high opinion of herself," Andrea said. "Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.
— Ilona Andrews
Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
— Eckhart Tolle
There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.
— Kurt Rambis
This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.
— J.D. Salinger
No act is so private it does not seek applause.
— John Updike
Ego Check. Damn it. How many would he need in one day?
— Gena Showalter