Quotes About Ego

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs.

Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.

If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.

As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous 'embarkation' and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one's merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all. When it does anything more - when it tries too hard, for example, when it worries, when it becomes apprehensive about the future - it lowers the effectiveness of those forces and may even cause the devitalized body to fall ill. In my present state, awareness was not referred to as ego; it was, so to speak, on its own.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

And anyhow the body seemed perfectly well able to look after itself. In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.