Quotes About Ego

We grasp at transitory pleasures. We brood about the past and worry about the future. We continually seek to prop up and defend an egoic self that doesn't exist.

Our habitual identification with thought—that is, our failure to recognize thoughts *as thoughts,* as appearances in consciousness—is a primary source of human suffering. It also gives rise to the illusion that a separate self is living inside one's head.

Long before reaching this kind of stability in meditation, however, one can discover that the sense of self—the sense that there is a thinker behind one's thoughts, an experiencer amid the flow of experience—is an illusion. The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking. Consider

Thoughts themselves are not a problem, but being identified with thought is.

the sense of self disappears when closely examined, and this is done through the practice of meditation.

The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.