Ego Quotes

Ego Quote of the day

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

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

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

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

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?

Your ego is your strictest judge.

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

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that makes him lie.

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

Is this an ego high or a peaceful high?

All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

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

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

Fears hide within fears....

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

The Soul’s doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.

Your ego is everything man about yourself

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.