Ego Quotes
1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors
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I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head…
— Shani Davis
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What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South…
— Chris Hani
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
— Dallas Willard
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Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music…
— Jodi Picoult
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Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
— Big Boi
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
— Bobby Fischer
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Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we love.
— Michelle Cruz
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Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do…
— Marc Gafni
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not…
— Walter Russell Mead
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You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life,…
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty....…
— Erich Fromm
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This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly…
— Adolf Hitler
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The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.
— Timothy Freke
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The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.
— Gael Greene
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One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
— Ram Dass
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Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.
— Gautama Buddha
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I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than…
— Martin Zweig
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little…
— Hugh Prather
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that…
— Paul Brunton
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It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person…
— Fritz Kunkel
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To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
— Alan Watts
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