Ego famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
-- Aberjhani -
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
-- Adi Shankara -
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.
-- Adyashanti -
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
-- Agnes Martin -
That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.
-- Ajahn Amaro -
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
-- Al Pacino -
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
-- Alain de Botton -
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
-- Alan Cohen -
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
-- Alan Cohen -
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
-- Alan Cohen -
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
-- Alan Finger -
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
-- Alan Watts -
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
-- Alan Watts -
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
-- Alan Watts -
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
-- Alan Watts -
The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego
-- Alan Watts -
One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
-- Alan Watts -
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
-- Albert Einstein -
...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.
-- Albert Hofmann -
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
-- Alec Guinness -
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator
-- Alex Grey -
The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'
-- Alex Grey -
If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.
-- Alexander Lowen -
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.
-- Alyson Noel -
I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
-- Amber Valletta -
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 three.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
-- Amy Adams -
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.
-- Andrew Samuels -
If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.
-- Andy Albright -
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
-- Andy Partridge -
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset.
-- Anita Moorjani -
I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
-- Anne Lamott -
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.
-- Anne Lamott -
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
-- Anthony de Mello -
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.
-- Anthony Greenwald -
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
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 -
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
-- Arthur Helps -
I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
-- Ato Boldon -
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
-- Ayn Rand -
The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.
-- Ayn Rand -
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.
-- Ayya Khema -
The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.
-- Barbara Holland -
Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
-- Barry Gibb -
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
-- Bear Grylls -
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
-- Beatrice Webb -
Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
-- Big Boi -
I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...
-- Bill Hicks -
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
-- Bill Maher -
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
-- Bill T. Jones -
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.
-- Bill Walsh -
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
-- Billie Burke -
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
-- Billy Ocean -
The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.
-- Blair Hull -
I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
-- Bobby Fischer -
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
-- Brad Bird -
Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.
-- Brad Grey -
Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.
-- Brad Moore -
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.
-- Brad Thor -
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
-- Brandon Routh -
The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.
-- Brian Michael Bendis -
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.
-- Brian Weiss -
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.
-- Byron Katie -
Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
-- Caprice Bourret -
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky
-- Carl Jung -
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
-- Carl Jung -
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
-- Carl Jung -
Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.
-- Carole Lombard -
Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
-- Catherine Ashton -
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
-- Cesare Pavese -
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
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 waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.
-- Chazz Palminteri -
It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.
-- Chester Bennington -
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
-- Chris Brogan
