Ego Quotes
1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors
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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.
— Stuart Wilde
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Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.
— Byron Katie
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The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry…
— Fred Thompson
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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center…
— Wojciech Kurtyka
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Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.
— Robin Williams
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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
— Tupac Shakur
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By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
— Ramana Maharshi
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No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your…
— Eckhart Tolle
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There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you…
— Thomas Metzinger
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The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.
— Stuart Wilde
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Gradually, by processing emotion and understanding the psychological action involved, you realize it isn't really complex. It may seem so at first, but that's because…
— Stuart Wilde
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As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks…
— Drunvalo Melchizedek
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Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
— Eckhart Tolle
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The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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