Ego Quotes

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your ego is your strictest judge.

~ Ayn Rand

Self Respect respects boundaries, yours or other's.Ego is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.

~ Drishti Bablani

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

~ Ryan Holiday

Ego is the ultimate killer on a team

~ Patrick Lencioni

​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

~ Steven Franssen

... life isn’t a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ...

~ Renée Paule

Not me,” you think.

~ Ryan Holiday

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.

~ Gizmo

If you live, ego disappears. Life knows no ego, it knows only living and living and living. Life knows no self, no center; life knows no separation. You breathe - life enters into you; you exhale you enter into life. There is no separation. You eat, and trees enter into you through the fruit. Then one day you die, you are buried in the earth, and the trees suck you up and you become fruits. Your children will eat you again. You have been eating your ancestors - the trees have converted them into fruits. You think you are a vegetarian? Don't be deceived by appearances. We are all cannibals.

~ Osho

The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person lives a false life whenever they are afraid to make contact with his or her authentic self. A sensitive ego – one that protects a person from pain – can also prevent a person from maturing mentally and emotionally by causing a person to distort truths and refuse to admit unpleasant facts.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We don't know that we don't own or owe Anything (In mathematical terms we are sifar), so keep walking as long as your legs are moving towards the infinite. Your own Ego is the only obstacle in this journey, earlier you get rid of it sooner will you find the infinite peace.

~ Ankitmishra

Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster...

~ Virginia Alison

You should be working on your speech instead of staring,” Rider said, never taking his eyes off his notebook.Paige’s dark eyes flew to me and then narrowed.Heat exploded across my cheeks.“And you should actually be working on, I don’t know, your speech?” Hector grinned as he gestured to his paper, which appeared to have actual words on it. “And please don’t stare at him, Mallory. Because of Paige, his ego is already big enough. He doesn’t need any help.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

~ Og Mandino

Those who were known as sultans and emperors are gone to dust. Their palaces are now known as ruins. This is ultimate power and commands of nature.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.

~ Roshan Sharma

He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.

~ Ravindra Shukla

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

~ Jim Butcher

If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person, choose your self-respect & ego.Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.

~ Nikita Dudani

if you may edit, edit yourself

~ George Spirakis

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

~ Hadi Farnoud

Arguments should always be held in private. Audiences inflate the ego.

~ L.j Vanier

Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: You want to be happy or you want to be right?

~ Aditya Ajmera

Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.

~ Dee Duncan

For beloved cross every pass Worldly affairs slow their pace A flowing brook amidst the grass Flowing tears his face shall trace His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface Sense the Divine in spirit and mass If he is truly seeking grace

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You see, the truth is no one ever really falls in love with anyone but themselves. Love is a mirror; a reflective surface projecting who we wish we were. What we've all waiting for is someone to come along who will show us something new about ourselves that we can adore. And then, because someone loves us, in turn, we love ourselves. Does that make sense?

~ Kathleen Tessaro

Broken GlassI watched herBeardlessWith little ego,FightingOn top ofThe ceiling,Like CinderellaIn high heelsLooking forHer glass slippersNo ties required!!

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Keep your identity small.

~ Paul Graham

The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One of more cruel punishment methods, if not the most cruel one, to any woman is to completely keep her out of attention, to constantly disconnect her eye connection, or simply not to listen to her. It could automatically destroy her Ego so badly that she could even prefer, from the bottom of her heart, any severe physical punishment to that ‘mild’ punishment, which would mean to be killed by inches for female brain.

~ Elmar Hussein

Big egos have little ears.

~ Robert Schuller

Don't get too much of an ego, but you're kind of my everything

~ Emma Winters