Home / Topics / Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes

Browse 3429 quotes about Ego.

Ego Quotes

“Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.”

Taken Humility Buddhism Healthy Ego And Love Love And Respect

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”

People Firsts Littles Said Important Self Suffering Culture Taken Trouble Modern Ego Rewards True Self Medal Inner Life Identification Away From You Modern Culture

Author:Richard Rohr

“The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.”

Real Soul Existence Taken Ego Argument Flight

Book:Letters to friends, family, and editors

Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors

“I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Different Self Care Life Is Spirit Certain Choices Belief Path Taken Source Ego Who You Are Accomplish You Choose Routes Think Of You Different Directions

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Has Beens Happens Strong Taken Ego Illusion Madness Envy Acquaintance Away From You

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.”

Wells Guy Levels Common Behinds Taken Ego Models Fruit Males Cute Adorable Bruised Forsaken Male Ego

Book:Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

“I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.”

Want Feels Trying Stories Hate Actors Acting Taken Fronts Ego I Hate

Author:Rutger Hauer

“The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”

Ifs Knows Life May Long Has Beens Problem Humanity Laughing Taken Ego Behavior Who You Are Unconscious Personal Problems

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.”

Made Said Self Problem Might Powerful Taken Identity Taste Ego Remains Deeper Realms Psychics Gross Exclusive Unborn Identification Self Identity

Author:Ken Wilber

“"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them.”

Mind Firsts Mean Soul Self Use Body Spirit Emotion Taken Stage Higher Taste Ego Embrace Deeper Witness Vehicle Psychics Erase Radiance Transcending

Author:Ken Wilber

“That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.”

People Needs Has Beens Made Stories Age Games Difficult Religious Levels Watches Taken Awareness Color Goes On Ego Understood Absolutes Saint Holiness Subtle Gross Pious

Author:Rajneesh