Home / Topics / Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes

Browse 3429 quotes about Ego.

Ego Quotes

“Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?”

Ifs Trying Effort Meditation Ego Conscious

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Trying Remember Energy Force Effort Vision Security Demand Ego Waste Perception Slave Lists Satisfying Nails Foreheads Ego Trip

Author:Stuart Wilde

“But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.”

Trying Mind Effort Watches Letting Go Ego Thinker Interfere Disappearance

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.”

Kind I Can Ideas Character Effort Ego Creating Entity Defining Creating Something Alter Ego

Author:Shook

“You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.”

Needs Mind Looks States Goal Effort Love You Ego Judgment Constant Look Up Judged Anguish Remorse Condemnation Define Yourself

Author:Wayne Dyer

“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.”

“I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.”

Knows Way Two Stars Hours Effort Morning Ego Six Studios Handle Massive Afternoon Chill Pretension Chilling Out

Author:Dizzee Rascal

“But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.”

People Way Giving Bigs Effort Ego Giving Up Patient Wave Be Patient Downfall Bail Male Ego

Author:Anna Benson

“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”

People Feels Persons Stills Effort Ought Ego Unselfish Moralist Futile Efforts

Author:Alan Watts

“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

“For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.”

“If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.”

Ifs Suffering Choices Grows Effort Ego Constant Prison Egoism

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“If you are going towards the easy, the ego starts dying. And when there is no ego left, you have arrived to your reality - the right, the truth. And truth and right have to be natural. Easy means natural; you can find them without any effort. Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.”

Ifs Mean Reality Left Easy Natural Effort Dying Ego

Author:Rajneesh

“Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.”

World Mind Humans Whole Past Desire Certain Imagination Effort Grace One Thing Taught Masters Ego Essentials Disappear Human Mind Collapse Palaces Edifice Gestalt

Author:Rajneesh

“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.”

Whole Problem Challenges Effort Moral Personality Ego Ethics Conscious Shadow Shadow Self

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self

“Buddhism is not concerned just with private destiny, but with the lives and consciousness of all beingsAny attempt to understand Buddhism apart from its social dimension is fundamentally a mistake. Until Western Buddhists understand this, their embrace of Buddhism will not help very much in the efforts to bring about meaningful and positive social change, or even in their struggle to transform their ego.”

Helping Social Effort Mistake Consciousness Destiny Struggle Buddhism Ego Concerned Embrace Western Meaningful Buddhist Dimensions Social Change

Author:Sulak Sivaraksa

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”

“If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.”

Ifs Way Whole Beautiful Happiness Life Is Force Effort Existence Meditation Holy Ego Deserve Misery Destroyed Suicidal Make You Happy Life Is A Gift Happiness Love

Author:Rajneesh

“The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself”

Trying Two Ends Use Perfect Effort Divine Ego Increase Manifestation Subtle Perfect Man

Book:One Taste

Source: One Taste

“It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.”

Ifs Way Whole Problem Fall Loses Effort Struggle Ego Fruit Destroyed Thrown Subtle Destroying Ripe Paradoxical Ripe Fruit Ripeness

Author:Rajneesh

“If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and stand back. Solutions incubate at a deep level, not at the speed demanded by your mind. Take a break and come back the next day. Allow the answers to arise from your center, even if it takes a while. However much you have to retrain yourself in this practice of Least Effort, the ability to come from your center is worth the highest price anyone could pay.”