Ego Quotes
1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows…
— Marc Maron
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You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.
— Michael Dolan
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True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and…
— R. D. Laing
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Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese…
— Belle de Jour
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To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up…
— Kumar Mangalam Birla
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Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
— Aesop
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The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for…
— Ken Wilber
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If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what…
— Alan Cohen
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When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how…
— Michelle Rodriguez
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Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those…
— Peter Abelard
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We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.
— Rajneesh
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You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it…
— Rajneesh
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In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there…
— Rajneesh
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.
— John C. Maxwell
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even…
— Unknown Author
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To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
— Gary Oldman
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We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body…
— Karl Marlantes
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to…
— Nick Flynn
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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its…
— William Kennedy
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He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power.…
— Unknown Author
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Don't let your ego get in the way of your success.
— Tony Horton
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What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine…
— Jeff Jarvis
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