My Ego Quotes
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.
This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.
Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.
Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.
You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.
See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.
I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
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.
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.
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.
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.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
