Quotes About Ego

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At

They treasure names and empty appearances above nearly all else, harming themselves and others just to protect them. They want to get money, or a good reputation, or a good relationship. They struggle desperately to get high positions. People always subject their minds to the worst kind of abuse and suffering just to try to get and then keep these empty, impermanent things.

You've got it made. How the words sing a swift jazz poem of success, hi-fi, the best chicks (or guys), your name in lights, pot to burn, jets to L.A. and London, bread in the bank, baby, a fortress built around your ego like a magic suit of armor!

Now this process, which requires death to our "selves" and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.

Ten thousand square feet? Do you really need ten thousand square feet? You both take up about ten square feet with your arms outstretched, spinning in circles." Felix said, "The west wing is for Celeste's wardrobe." Celeste said, "And the east wing is for Felix's ego.

Algunos me detestan, ¿por qué regocijarme cuando otros me elogian? Otros me ensalzan, ¿por qué deprimirme cuando otros me desprecian? Los seres sensibles tienen diversas preferencias, ni siquiera los vencedores podrían satisfacerlos a todos, ¿cómo podría hacerlo yo que no tengo la sabiduría? Por tanto, ¿a qué preocuparme por las opiniones de la gente?.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Shocking it is . . . It's what comes of being too handsome.

As with everything I've ever written, I start out paralyzed by fear of failure. The tarantula ego—starving to be shored up by praise—tries to scare me away from saying simply whatever small, true thing is standing in line for me to say.

You can do "research," i.e. postponing writing, till Jesus dons a nightie. But your memoir's real enemy is blinking back at you from the shaving glass when you floss at night—your ignorant ego and its myriad masks.

Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans.