Ego Quotes

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

~ Roy Bennett

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.

~ Paul Brunton

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

~ Paul Brunton

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

~ Toba Beta

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

~ Robin Macnaughton

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

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The more you can have control over your ego rather than let it run amuck, the more successful you’ll be in all areas of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground...don't let your ego run out of control and convince you that you are better than anyone else

~ Jerry Gladstone

Never abandon your personal message. No matter what comes your way, remain dedicated to that which you hold close to your heart

~ Jerry Gladstone

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When true happiness shows up, the ego is bored with it: It's too plain, too ordinary, and it doesn't leave us feeling special or above the fray. It doesn't take away our problems, which is the ego's idea of happiness. The ego wants no more difficulties: no ore sickness, no more need for money, no more work, no more bad feelings, only unending pleasure and bliss. Such perfection is the ego's idea of a successful life. However, the happiness the ego dreams of will never be attained by anyone. The ego denies the reality of this dimension, where challenges are necessary to evolution and blissful states and pleasure come and go.

~ Gina Lake

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

~ Bert Mccoy

The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You either bend, or you break. Suppress your ego to stay happy.

~ Manoj Arora

I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis, It revolved around him.

~ Dee Remy

Biggest tragedy of life is when God ask us to glorify Him for our sakes but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.

~ Indonesia123

What wasting time means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

~ Indonesia123

Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.

~ Indonesia123

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.

~ Nora Roberts

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.

~ Dee Remy

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

~ T.f. Hodge

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.

~ Amit Kalantri

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

~ Amit Kalantri

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

~ Amit Kalantri

The ego says, win the world to find peace. The spirit says, win yourself over to find peace.

~ Debasish Mridha

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski.

~ Charles Bukowski

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

~ David Foster Wallace

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

~ Natalie Goldberg

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.

~ Shannon L. Alder

While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.

~ Melody Lee

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one’s gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.

~ Rita M. Gross

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.

~ Bill Bullard

I'm everything that you're not.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

~ Douglas Adams

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.

~ Criss Jami

Every action (‘doing’) causes bondage. ‘Doing’ is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, ‘action’ of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.

~ Dada Bhagwan