Quotes About Ego

the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of not living up to the image of yourself that you want everyone to see is a source of tremendous anxiety. At

Pride and humility, just like darkness and light, have a hard time hanging out together. Actually, without humility, we have very little chance of sustained influence. When

Taking one's self too seriously is a true display of a persons deep seated inadequacies.

They who turn their backs towards other men laugh at their ambitions

It matters not whether you win or lose: what matters is whether I win or lose.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

Robust science is carried out in a robust way through reasoned argument based on well researched data and although it may dent the ego of the loser it does not smear the name of science.

Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

I'm the king of the world!

I'm King Of The World!!!

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Level 5 leaders, Collins argues, 'channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. Their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.' Pass the ball.

When you sit in meditation, relaxed and open, everything arises, all of samsara and all of nirvana. Everything is contained within the spacious mind. Is this the Buddha? You can read many dzogchen texts which say that your own mind is the Buddha. This doesn't mean that your ego formation or your sense of self is the Buddha. Rather, within the openness of your awareness there is space for your ego, and the qualities which are arising there are held inside the infinite clarity of the mind.

A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.

Religion can provide a check to my tendency to think that I am the center of the universe, that I know better than anyone about God, and that God speaks most clearly through me.

Merton wrote, "Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: the false self." With his typical insight, Merton identifies the false self as the person that we wish to present to the world, and the person we want the whole world to revolve around: Thus