The Ego Quotes
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The Ego Quotes & Sayings
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True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
— Matthieu Ricard
The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
— Idries Shah
The ego's blocking the light from coming.
— Sandra Cisneros
The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.
— Robert Barron
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
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?
— Eric Hill
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
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
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
Get your egos off the battlefield.
— Charlie Sheen
The ego knows itself by comparison.
— Richard Rohr
If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
— Robert Adams
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
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
— Thomas Metzinger
Keep your ego from interfering with you search for the truth.
— Vincent Ruggiero
My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
— Anthony De Mello
Guidance happens when we create the space in our minds to allow our angels to speak up.Set your ego aside and listen! — Catherine Carrigan
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
— Sathya Sai Baba
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
— William Sanderson
Humility allows us to take risks at the expense of our ego.
— Praying Medic
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
— Joseph Campbell
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
Foreigner is a word created by guilt and the fears, ignorance, and weaknesses of your own ego.
— Ben Tolosa
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
— Alan Finger
After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
— Dan Castellaneta
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
— Daniel Barenboim
One's ego is the enemy of objectivity.
— Kevin Ansbro
The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.
— William Proxmire
We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.
— Taite Adams
After all, the male ego was a horrible thing.
— Robert Dunbar
I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.
— Sharon Bolton
My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.
— Michelle M. Pillow
If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.'
— Stanley R. Jaffe
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious ...
— Bill Hicks
Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
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
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
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
— John Cheever
The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
To enter your true self,check your ego at the door. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.
— Christopher Dines
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
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
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
Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.
— Robin Macnaughton
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
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
The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.
— Taite Adams
Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
— Colin Clark
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
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
— Richard Rohr
