Quotes About Ego

Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.

I felt like everywhere I went, I was surrounded by people who were broadcasting but not receiving. Narcissism, it occurred to me, is a corruption of attention - it's where your attention becomes turned in only on yourself and your own ego.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Those with low self-esteem tend to have highly developed egos; they long to be Best at every Thing and valued highly by everyone they meget, and imavine their ego is repressed, weak and needs boosting

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.