Ego Quotes

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, y...

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to ...

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit ...

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyear...

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my ...

It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative...

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego...

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...

Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 ...

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tric...

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essenc...

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what ...

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not ju...

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is...

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “probl...

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigi...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer soci...

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ...

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, t...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illu...

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from th...

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through thi...

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't f...

So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There yo...

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you fe...

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principl...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obvio...

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could ...

Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for ...

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But...

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection o...

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distor...

[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself...

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blow...

I would prefer not to.

...killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Francisco's f***ing eg...

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself u...

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting...

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose tha...

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority...

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects...

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, const...

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth...

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction ...

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation...

Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to ...

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large s...

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you ...

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your se...

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you und...

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much long...

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes o...

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give ...

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...

Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...

oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a po...

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of “Sp...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and h...

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work s...

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

In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are const...

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and t...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...