My Ego Quotes

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

It is not your talents that make you great, but your decisions.

Struggle for Your Goals, because its too much better than Struggling for Your Life.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

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.

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

To enter your true self, check your ego at the door.

Egotism fears its own self.

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.

May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

I'd love to be what I have been.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.

Be confident but with a leashed ego.

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!

The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

Fears hide within fears....

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

Take your ego out of your story.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.