Ego Quotes

1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors

The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and… — Wayne Dyer
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it… — Ramana Maharshi
It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of… — Neem Karoli Baba
The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The… — Sigmund Freud
When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious… — Leonard Jacobson
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. — Marianne Moore
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw
The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing… — Michael Leunig
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the… — Bertrand Russell
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. — Marya Mannes
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. — Robert Breault
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego.... — Carl Jung
The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It… — Ram Dass
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men… — Herman Melville
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't.… — Dean Martin
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it… — Charles Horton Cooley
I hate everything which is not in myself. — Norman Mailer
Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego. — Tennessee Williams

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