Home / Topics / Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes

Browse 3429 quotes about Ego.

Ego Quotes

“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”

Ifs Writing Believe Wells Use Might Energy Opinion Identity Pure Ego Believe In You Willpower

Author:William Zinsser

“You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.”

Giving Use Desire Meditation Buddhism Ego Going Away Innate Impetus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.”

Way Use Mines Ego Advantage Release

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.”

Ifs Has Beens Use Used Consciousness Technology Ego Enormous Destructive Things Change Amplify

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.”

Thinking Love Self Use Used Language Love Is Ready Self Love Ego Oneself Considerate Inconsiderate

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.”

Men Trying Facts Use Force Differences Ego Approach Importance Horse Relation Checks Superiors Borrowed Riders

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.”

Men Mind May Use He Man Ego Fasting Vacant Volition

Author:Ramesh S Balsekar

“The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.”

Thinking Men Feels Mean Different Ends Enough Facts Use Feelings Past Universe Individual Consciousness Position He Man Genius Ego Conscious Perceive Centre Neighbour Means To An End

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.”

People Giving Feels Humans Use Spiritual Culture Term Common Greater Divine Ego Boundaries Contact Substance Phrases Transcendent

Author:Andrew Weil

“I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.”

Knows Doe Use Ego Zero

Author:Richard Armitage

“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.”

Hard Use Happens Difficult Term Emotional Ego Weakness Things Happen Artistic Confronting Scientology Letting Things Happen

Author:Annie E. Clark

“In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.”

Knows Way Trying Doe Self Helping Use Order Realizing Like You Ego Behavior Absolutes Who You Are Helping Others Ideology Buddhist Construction Conventional Organize Disconnected Pronouns

Author:Robert Thurman

“We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.”

Humans Use Seems Grows Growing Up Conditions Ego Obvious Human Condition

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”

Use Wisdom Spiritual Lost Enjoy Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Ego Instruments Finding Yourself Exquisite Wise Man Once Said Egoism Be True To Yourself Listen To Yourself

Author:Ram Dass

“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”

“You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life”

Ifs Way Mind Different Use Beautiful Used Reading Memories Knowing Dangerous Ignorance Ego Increase Different Ways Subtle Not Knowing Knowledgeable Poisoning Knowledge Wisdom Wrong Direction

Author:Rajneesh

“If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Persons Self Use My Own Ability Risk Objects Ego Reflection Commitment Absence Willingness Exploitation Exposure Ability To See I Need Him

Author:Erich Fromm

“So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.”

Ifs Knows Love Should Use Wisdom Spirit Can Do Meditation Love You Thousand Ego Yoga Manage Wellness Enlightened Within You

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.”

People Mean Littles Ends Use Would Be Winning Lost Darkness Greater Building Ego Treats Army Greed Riches Occasions Generosity Empires Boots Collecting New Friends

Author:Cyrus the Great

“"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

“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

“'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced that the only way is to drop the ego, then who is going to drop whom? And how? It will be like pulling yourself up by your own shoestrings. You will look just silly. Watch each word that you use. 'I am' is nothing but the ego.”

Ifs Way Looks Use Names Watches Trouble Ego Convinced Silly Pulling

Author:Rajneesh

“I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.”

Knows Men Giving Wells Kind Soul Use Given Race Practice Trouble One Thing Ego Weakness Tasks Madness Coaches Loyalty Every Man Judgement Hardship Locked Coping Will Power Rowing

Author:Daniel Topolski

“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.”

“The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.”

Use Problem Spirituality Ego

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings