Ego Quotes

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

~ Suzy Kassem

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

~ Criss Jami

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

~ Richard Rohr

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

~ Idries Shah

Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

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

~ Criss Jami

The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.

~ Ryan Holiday

It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.

~ Ryan Holiday

Arrogance doesn't have variety in shades.. Humility has umpteen.

~ Talees Rizvi

At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...

~ Ryan Holiday

Right or Wrong, most times, merely depends on perspective. It takes humility (not necessarily logic) to let go of our egos to see through the other person's eyes. But I guess even I, myself, can't let go to see why you'd object.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

~ Walter Isaacson

Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through ‘absolute humility’ (param vinaya). The ‘gates of understanding’ are opened with ‘absolute humility’. ‘Absolute humility’ arises only when the ego is dissolved.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

~ T.j. Stiles

In the cosmos of time, there's not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

~ Daniel S. Peña

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

~ T.f. Hodge

If you're a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

~ T.f. Hodge

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

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down that block communication, cause mis-communication and dissolution of trust, that kill a bond.--TAMMY WOOSTER 1/15

~ Tammy Wooster

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

~ David Halberstam

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pity back at the world. Admiration and awe are much more helpful, especially when I find myself feeling like a victim for being stuck in traffic or losing my favorite sweater. Perspective is a blessing.

~ Erica Goros

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

~ Andy Paula

If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future— staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?

~ C. Joybell C.

Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.

~ Ashish Patel

You will never get the same from people as you expect, Better ask to god he will give you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn't mean anything

~ Paul Karan

You will never get the same from people you expect, Better ask to god he will give you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn't mean anything

~ Paul Karan

You will never get the same from people you expect, Better ask to god he will you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn't mean anything.

~ Paul Karan

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

~ Faraaz Kazi

The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.

~ Matthew Donnelly

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.

~ Matthew Kelly

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

~ T.f. Hodge

Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

~ Aditya Ajmera

We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.

~ Evan Sutter

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

~ Criss Jami

You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.

~ Richie Norton

Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.

~ Jasz Gill