Quotes About Ego

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

Elle parle d'elle à la troisième personne parce que l'idée d'être celle qu'elle est, de s'admettre telle quelle, c'est plus que son orgueil ne peut en supporter

Buying is an extremely satisfying, macho act

It is sometimes said that the first stages of the meditation process are the most difficult. The first distraction is the physical body. Sometimes there is real pain in sitting, and sometimes the ego just tries to distract us by creating itches we will want to scratch.

There's almost nothing personal in success. Success is always money's own success.

Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego. CONFLICT

The world is in crisis. It needs people who have the skill to combine inner power with outer action. Inner power comes from self mastery, observing and controlling the ego, and deepening integrity through a regular practice of reflection or meditation.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

much of the boring machinery identified as management has more value for the manager's ego than the quality of work produced.

You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition

People so staunch and true, they're fixated, Shining with self-regard like polished stones. And their whole life spent admiring themselves For their own long-suffering. Licking their wounds And flashing them around like decorations. I hate it, I always hated it, and I am A part of it myself.

Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.

Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.