Ego Quotes - Page 5

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

Do the work that feeds your soul, not your ego.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.