Quotes About Ego

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

If you win even one tournament or medal, people can think they have become big.

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.

I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45

Such a Zen dialogue is basically a contest, but it's really an anti-contest. It's a kind of reverse or paradoxical contest. It works like this: two people talk, and the first one who speaks from the ego loses. The one who wants to win is certainly going to lose.

Shikantaza is not a practice carried out by the individual. It is, rather, a practice in which we let go of the individual karmic self that is constantly seeking to satisfy its own desires.

All sufferings come from false pride.

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

But as long as you think, "I am doing this," or "I have to do this," or "I must attain something special," you are actually not doing anything... when you do not try to do anything special, then you do something. When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.