No Ego Quotes

The square root of I is I.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.

I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.