Ego Quotes

Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.

~ Saru Singhal

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

~ Angela Carter

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

~ Winston S. Churchill

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego, it sure is good for his intellect.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever.

~ Henry James

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

~ William Manchester

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage, you're just playin' yourself.

~ T.f. Hodge

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

~ Beth Johnson

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

~ Thomas Metzinger

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

~ Oscar Wilde

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.

~ T.f. Hodge

Both the mind and presence can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

~ John Reader

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

~ Alexander Strauch

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love, fools just love.Fools breathe air, intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.

~ Saurabh Sharma

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says I did it.

~ Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short

~ Lauren Oliver

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

~ Sufian Chaudhary

Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.

~ Valerie Martin

After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.

~ Garey Gordon

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

~ Alexander Lowen

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.

~ Émile Zola

if due to ego you think:i shall not fight, this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.

~ Anonymous

Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.

~ Jen Wang

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?I had a bigger hole to fill.What do you mean?A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.

~ Michka Assayas

Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur.

~ Sangu Mandanna

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

~ Abbe Smith

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the I. One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.

~ Miguel Syjuco

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

~ Russell Simmons

Meditation is the best tool for neutralizing the voice in the head. It's a muzzle for the ego. Being mindful is an innate but underused ability we all have, the act of being aware without judging. When you repeatedly go through the cycle of trying to focus on your breath, losing that focus, and noticing and returning to the practice, you are literally building your mindfulness muscle the same way dumbbell curls build your biceps. As this mind-muscle develops, you start being way more aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as what they really are: squirts of chemicals & hormones that enter, peak and then fade completely back to the nothingness of which they arose. In other words, mindfulness provides space between impulse and action, so you're not a slave to whatever pops into your head. You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness of them.

~ Dan Harris

We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.

~ Ryan Holiday

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

~ Colin Powell

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

~ George Michael

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

~ Arlo Guthrie

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

~ James Altucher

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

~ Ryan Holiday

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

~ Simon Cowell

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.

~ Kim Dotcom