Home / Topics / Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes

Browse 3429 quotes about Ego.

Ego Quotes

“You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.”

World This World Buddhism Depends Balance Ego Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.”

Trying Energy Inspire Buddhism Balance Ego Aids Manipulate Tripping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.”

Ifs Might Choices Buddhism Balance Ego Illusion Eternity You Choose Wrong Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”

May Challenges Levels Leader Support Balance Ego Instance Strokes Great Leader Reception

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.”

Men Believe Belief Women Realizing Attention Balance Ego Essentials Enlightenment Superiors Permit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.”

Has Beens Reason Age Earth Century Pride Balance Ego Mass Destruction Reasonable Collectives Delicate Twentieth Century Missiles Mass Destruction Neurosis Age Of Reason

Author:Marion Woodman

“Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.”

Want Two Ends Spirit Dies Balance Truth Is Ego Wanting To Die Beginnings And Ends

Author:RuPaul

“Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.”

“Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.”

Important Enjoy Balance Involved Lessons Ego Life Lesson Standpoint Enjoy Yourself

Book:Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.”

People Way Kind School Found Laughing Stage Fronts Balance Ego High School Overcoming Performing Shy Reserved Making People Laugh Shyness Ego Trip

Author:Steve Martin

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“To get past your ego and its defenses you need to get quiet, be brave, and listen to your inner voices....When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you’ve given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.”

“I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'”

Ifs Trying I Can Shows Pain Guy Hurt Honest Love You Balance Ego Accounts Being Honest Just Being Royal I Love You Very Positive Promoters Accolades

Author:Mark Feuerstein