Ego Quotes · Page 57

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

— Fethullah Gulen

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

— Leonard Jacobson

I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego…

— Ralph Sarchie

“Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!”

— T.F. Hodge

A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still…

— Tenzin Palmo

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also…

— Plautus

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

— Krishna Das

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I…

— Erich Fromm

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,…

— Ken Wilber

“The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person…

— Ryan Holiday

Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That's why I am talking about this Hasidic…

— Anonymous

We look around and we constantly compare ourselves to others and analyze how well we fit in. Are we as successful as…

— Sumesh Nair

The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do…

— Sigmund Freud

One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the…

— Don Richard Riso

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely…

— Clare Boothe Luce

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

— Martin Heidegger

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and…

— Matthew Ashford

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

— Assegid Habtewold

Obviously everybody, if you're playing in the league, you've got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

— Stephen Curry

“My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So…

— Jon Voight

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

— Luis Gerardo Mendez

“Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani,…

— Dada Bhagwan

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs:…

— Belle de Jour

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't…

— Carl Paladino

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing…

— Marina and the Diamonds

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

— Anonymous

I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

— Brad Willis

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

— Marya Mannes

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

A BiG pOt FuLl Of WaTeR cAn bE eMpTiEd By A sMaLl HoLe ¦ EvEn A lItTlE aNgEr Or EgO wIlL bUrN…

— Mark

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important.

— Bertrand Russell

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and…

— Anonymous

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the…

— Rajneesh

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

— Frederick Lenz

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know…

— D. H. Lawrence

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of…

— Rick McCallum

Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to…

— Joseph Brodsky