My Ego Quotes

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.

These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

Today, take a break from your ego and don't take yourself too seriously. Enjoy your Spirit and laugh!

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

The ego knows itself by comparison.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered 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.

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.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

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.

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.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.