Egoistic Quotes
29 quotes by 22 authors
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age…
— Gerald Early
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The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life…
— Rajneesh
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To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like…
— Rajneesh
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to…
— Rajneesh
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A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person…
— Rajneesh
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Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.
— Shri Radhe Maa
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core…
— George Eliot
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
— John Ruskin
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Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man…
— Rajneesh
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self…
— Ellen Key
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... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and…
— Warder Clyde Allee
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Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing…
— Kenji Mizoguchi
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Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
— George Eliot
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Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge,…
— Dainin Katagiri
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The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
— Sigmund Freud
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The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic…
— Paulo Freire
Who Wrote These Egoistic Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 29 Egoistic Quotes as follows: