Ego Quotes
1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors
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And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that…
— Mark Lawrence
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A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't…
— Dick Motta
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You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego…
— Bill Walsh
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain…
— Eckhart Tolle
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A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start…
— Digger Phelps
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The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir…
— Sam Keen
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You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take…
— Charles Manson
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But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all…
— J D Salinger
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All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
— Pema Chodron
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Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that…
— Jack Kornfield
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We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people…
— Kenny Smith
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Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,…
— Kenny Smith
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Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how…
— Kenny Smith
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The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an…
— Kenny Smith
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The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even…
— Kenny Smith
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There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With…
— Rajneesh
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There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !
— Eckhart Tolle
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Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.
— Scott Stapp
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Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that the happiest times…
— Robert Holden
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Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
— Pema Chodron
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My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today.
— Simon de Pury
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I'm not sure the ring is big enough to hold both these egos!
— Jim Ross
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Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the…
— Caroline Myss
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In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not…
— Richard Rohr
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