Ego Quotes

1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ego is vital but not noble. — Kedar Joshi
All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We… — Lester Levenson
Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration. — Lester Levenson
The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one… — Lester Levenson
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of… — Frederick Lenz
Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is… — Frederick Lenz
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego. — Frederick Lenz
When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures… — Claire Danes
I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but… — John Travolta
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need… — David Brin
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. — Rajneesh
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet… — Rajneesh
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. — Hans Arp
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal. — Ambrose Bierce
me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all… — Ambrose Bierce
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material. — Joan Rivers
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are… — Dalai Lama
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which… — Dalai Lama
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. — Fernando Pessoa
I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was. — Art Buchwald

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