Quotes About Ego

If possessions are viewed as part of self, it follows that an unintentional loss of possessions should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

This is partly my own ego, of course. I want to be visible as tough enough to possess and defend a femme who is entrancing enough to become the object of someone else's desire, but it is equally a measure of protection for the femme in question. What if the same person sees her walking alone tomorrow?

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

bizim en büyük maharetimiz nefsimizden beraat karar? almakt?r. Vicdan azab? dedikleri ?ey, ancak bir hafta sürer. Ondan sonra en a?a??l?k katil bile yapt??? i? için kafi mazeretler tedarik etmi?tir.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.

Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others.

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun! And

The moment you get strongly identified, you lose your perspective on life!

Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.

What you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you. Who

As long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment is important. This present moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.

Belief is just like morality. People who believe something often think they are superior to others. All that happens the moment you believe something is that your stupidity acquires confidence. Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.

When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun!

Unfortunately, these days even so-called spiritual leaders are talking about self-esteem. "Self" and "esteem" are both a problem. Both are very limited entities; both are fragile; both will always be insecure. If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!

If someone else thinks you are smart, it is okay. It is their opinion. If you think you are smart, it means you are stupid.

The crux of the matter is that you don't yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made. Everything that you currently know as "myself" is just an accumulation.

Ich habe noch nie einen Schriftsteller kennengelernt, der nicht eitel und nicht egozentrisch gewesen wäre – es sei denn, es war ein besonders schlechter Autor.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves.