Ego Quotes

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Balroop Singh

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

~ Lewis Black

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

~ Assegid Habtewold

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

~ Robert Brault

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I'd love to be what I have been.

~ Raheel Farooq

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

~ Edward De Bono

It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

~ Lauren Oliver

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

~ Alan Cohen

A person experiments in life and reflects upon those events in order to discover how to lead a meaningful life. We conduct a quest searching for the source our essential being. What we seek is inside us waiting for us to discover. Until we realize the vital inner source that provides direction for our life, all our efforts are in vain. The ego with its craving and fearful protection strategies is what prevents us from perceiving the transparency of the world in which we belong. When we cease clinging to the past and no longer daydream of the future and unreservedly accept whatever is occurring while sacrificing ourselves in service of other people our sense of self vanishes and we exist only as conscious and nonjudgmental witnesses of reality.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ Garima Mittal

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

~ Paul Brunton

Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

~ Evan Sutter

He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And yet, he was helpless but to regard that unmistakable fear that gripped him in his dream as a sign that his unevenness lent him now to utter incongruity with this specter of past.

~ Ashim Shanker

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

~ Criss Jami

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their superior self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Be confident but with a leashed ego.

~ Ben Tolosa

Ego likes comfort zones, safety, familiarity, boundaries, limits, a god who stays put in a box, and the known vs. the unknown. Ego can be a wimp. Unlike what most people believe, ego is not about too much confidence. Ego is about not enough confidence—confidence in the divine part of ourselves.

~ Janet Rebhan

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

~ Criss Jami

Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

~ Kale Burton

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.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Dave Donovan

...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.

~ Bertrand Russell

She was asked, “What do you see in him?”Taken aback, she replied, “What does he see in me?”Others too wondered why she chose him – not as handsome as the others, not one with a lot of possessions or even status, but little did they know, as little minds go, that she chose the one who wanted her most.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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.

~ Taite Adams

I would prefer not to.

~ Herman Melville

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.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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

~ Sammy Sutton

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing self.

~ Nanette Mathews

Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itBrutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.

~ John R. Perry

Fears hide within fears....

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

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.

~ W.h. Auden

Take your ego out of your story.

~ A.d. Posey

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it.

~ Zia Haider Rahman

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson