Ego Quotes

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.

There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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 you would be free.

You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.

I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.

Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

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 good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.

In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

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.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.