Ego Quotes

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

~ Ayn Rand

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

~ Megha Khare

The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he perceived.

~ Sol Luckman

Sun of himself. All things are his moons.

~ Kate Tempest

Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole.- Author Serena Jade

~ Serena Jade

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules

~ Sunday Adelaja

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

~ David Halberstam

Life is never as complex as ego would want you to believe.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.

~ Saru Singhal

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.

~ Jean Baudrillard

You said just now, Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest of the low, that everybody takes me for a buffoon, so I say to myself, why shouldn't I act the fool, I'm not afraid of what any of you might think, because every single one of you is even worse than me. That's why I'm a buffoon, I'm a buffoon born of shame, great starets, of shame. It's anxiety pure and simple that makes me so unruly.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to be in charge, and if we’re not the hero of the story, we’ve somehow failed in our life duty.group

~ Morgan Guyton

To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be filled with self-aggrandizement and ego. This will most certainly be one of your greatest obstacles to achieving whatever degree of mastery you are capable.

~ Chris Matakas

Mr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.

~ Kristen Callihan

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Such an incredible, stupefying realization: I am not, indeed, the center of the universe.Not! Not! Not!And the overwhelming gratitude, the flooding relief that comes from finally being able to give myself the permission to lay down that excruciating, exhausting burden of needing to prove to the world, every waking moment, that I am, indeed, undeniably, irrefutably The Center of the Universe.

~ Lionel Fisher

In life there are often moments when the battle is between a relationship that means a lot and a small yet dangerous three letter word 'EGO'. Don't let this devil win and make you a loser. If there are certain things you would rather not loose then you mighty well not loose them. Remember there is always that thin line between ego and self respect. While you are busy nurturing your ego the relations that matter may feel the need for self respect and break away. It's always your decision on who wins. Your Ego or You.

~ Mansi Soni

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

~ Osho

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

~ Eckhart Tolle

When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around.The more lights are lit, the more humanity will be enlightened in these dark times, when the world of the ego, driven to its extreme, has begun its dramatic collapse.

~ Human Angels

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to control them.

~ Taite Adams

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

~ Taite Adams

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

~ Taite Adams

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me

~ Kemi Sogunle

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

~ Taite Adams

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

~ Taite Adams

The more things I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

~ Taite Adams

When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels

~ Human Angels

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

~ Taite Adams

It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place.

~ David Hoffmeister

hapIf you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

~ Stanley Victor Paskavci

Religion does not mean to worship cows. Religion is within the body of a human being. There is infinite power within this human body and manifestation of that power is Religion. In one sense it is the transformed state of ‘Ego’. Even if you don’t understand it, let me say that by evolution of self a man becomes God ….

~ Sri Jibankrishna Or Diamond

Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.

~ Taite Adams

If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

~ Unarine Ramaru

In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring

~ Wayne W. Dyer