My Ego Quotes

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.

I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.

I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

Show me success without ego!

You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.

There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

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?

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.