Quotes About Ego

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

So long as you feel yourself separate from others, so long are you shut out from the realisation of the unity; so long as you say "my" and "mine," so long the realisation of the Spirit is not yet possible for you.

words exclaimed in an empty room are pure self-conscience, the narcissist's folly.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

if something goes wrong in his environment, a man tends to look outside himself first for the cause of the problem. According to research, this tendency is based partly on the male biological tendency to take action (versus introspection) and partly on the male ego, which encourages him to blame others and not take responsibility for his actions. Conversely, if something goes wrong in her environment, a woman will tend to look inside herself for the cause of the problem.

When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish.

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.

If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

Let's face it God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

we are looking at life from our perspective, our limited, finite and earthbound frame of reference. Our egos step in the way of God and we think we can see things better from our point of view. We block God out and stumble our way ahead. We are looking at our life from our will be done, not God's will be done.

it just doesn't work. You cannot expect nine other guys to submerge themselves and their abilities to one man.