Ego Quotes - Page 2

Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.

I just didn’t get it—even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one handand a lemon (the moon) in the other,her favorite student (the sun) standing behind her with a flashlight.I just couldn’t grasp it—this whole citrus universe, these bumpy planets revolving so slowlyno one could even see themselves moving.I used to think if I could only concentrate hard enoughI could be the one person to feel what no one else could,sense a small tug from the ground, a sky shift, the earth changing gears.Even though I was only one mini-speck on a speck,even though I was merely a pinprick in one goosebump on the orange,I was sure then I was the most specially perceptive, perceptively sensitive.I was sure then my mother was the only mother to snap,“The world doesn’t revolve around you!”The earth was fragile and mostly water,just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it,just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me.Looking back on that third grade science demonstration,I can understand why some people gave up on fame or religion or cures—especially people who have an understandingof the excruciating crawl of the world,who have a well-developed sense of spatial reasoningand the tininess that it is to be one of us.But not me—even now I wouldn’t mind being god, the forcewho spins the planets the way I spin a globe, a basketball, a yoyo.I wouldn’t mind being that teacher who chooses the fruit,or that favorite kid who gives the moon its glow.

Denise Duhamel

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

Rick Warren

Even when we have realized oneness and nothingness, we still have our personal lives to manage, bodies to take care of, and mouths to feed, and you will know which one is yours and which ones are others', so you won't put food into another person's mouth when you are hungry. Also you won't kiss a rattlesnake or hug a cactus no matter how strong an affinity you feel toward them. But at the same time, we know these apparent separations are functional, not fundamental, and should be recognized as such without mistaking one for the other. I would call this apparent separation "functional ego," or you can call it your "character," which is the collection of your beliefs, habits, and other people's expectations.

Ilchi Lee

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

Shannon L. Alder

I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I." He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, "Why do you hate so and so, so much?" And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, "I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation...

Assegid Habtewold

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Idries Shah

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.

Donna Lynn Hope

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Alan W. Watts

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

Donna Lynn Hope

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

Eckhart Tolle

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

Christopher Morris

The ego wants to own everything; this denies the invincibility of surrender, the handmaiden of love.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but they usually fail (in fact, trying makes it worse). In a commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace argued that conquering the preoccupation with self is pretty much the whole objective of being alive — but if we are to believe Wallace succeeded at this goal, it must be the darkest success imaginable.

Chuck Klosterman

if that can't be your let that be remain for you but please keep your ego with you

romance bam

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Idries Shah

Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.

Maria V. Snyder

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.

Neal Stephenson

Let your work show off for you and not your ego.

Unarine Ramaru

As if it wouldn’t rain without you...

Daya Kudari

Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour 'em too much, you make an enemy.

Huseyn Raza

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

Eckhart Tolle

Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation

Imran Khan

The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...

Akemi G

When we recognize that our personal good coincides with the Good of everyone, our inner light is turned on: at this point, when a human being becomes a Human Angel, their light, like a beacon, shines all around.The more lights are lit, the more humanity will be enlightened in these dark times, when the world of the ego, driven to its extreme, has begun its dramatic collapse.

Human Angels

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.

Eckhart Tolle

Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.

Taite Adams

Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.

Taite Adams

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

Taite Adams

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Joseph J. Ellis

When love speaks it is about “us” or “we”…when ego speaks it is about “I” or “me

Kemi Sogunle

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

Taite Adams

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

Taite Adams

The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

Taite Adams

When we live in the ego, we are human. When we live in the Awareness of the Oneness, we are Human Angels

Human Angels

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

Tennessee Williams

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Taite Adams

It is the ego's purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet events. I did this next and this happened, then I went there. That is the way it is talked about when the mind believes in sequential time and events. But once we get a sense that there is purpose that ties them all together, that is when the fusion between all the events takes place.

David Hoffmeister

hapIf you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

Stanley Victor Paskavci

Religion does not mean to worship cows. Religion is within the body of a human being. There is infinite power within this human body and manifestation of that power is Religion. In one sense it is the transformed state of ‘Ego’. Even if you don’t understand it, let me say that by evolution of self a man becomes God ….

Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.

Taite Adams

If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

Unarine Ramaru

In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring

Wayne W. Dyer

Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole."- Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.

Aditya Ajmera

The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.

Sunday Adelaja

Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules

Sunday Adelaja

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

David Halberstam

Life is never as complex as ego would want you to believe.

Aditya Ajmera

Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse.

Saru Singhal

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects, according to the logic of jealously, are narcissistic equivalents of the ego: to lose them, or for them to be damaged, means castration.

Jean Baudrillard

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.

Mohsin Ali Shaukat

You said just now, "Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble"––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest of the low, that everybody takes me for a buffoon, so I say to myself, why shouldn't I act the fool, I'm not afraid of what any of you might think, because every single one of you is even worse than me. That's why I'm a buffoon, I'm a buffoon born of shame, great starets, of shame. It's anxiety pure and simple that makes me so unruly.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

white middle-upper class guys in highly educated families have a unique burden placed on us to be the hero of every story that we tell. I don’t think it’s merely that we’re self-centered and arrogant, but that we feel like we’re supposed to be in charge, and if we’re not the hero of the story, we’ve somehow failed in our life duty.group

Morgan Guyton

To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be filled with self-aggrandizement and ego. This will most certainly be one of your greatest obstacles to achieving whatever degree of mastery you are capable.

Chris Matakas

High ego makes you think that you are the king of the universe while you are in fact the king of nothing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Mr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.

Kristen Callihan

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