My Ego Quotes

We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

Nothing burns in hell but ego" says Tauler. Does anything live but Buddha Nature, Christ Spirit?

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.

Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

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.

When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.

When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

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.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing Vanity Fair was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.