Quotes About Ego

Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

The first phase—the Me Phase of practice—involves clarifying all the ways we're run by the self-centered mind. It includes uncovering our most basic beliefs, observing our typical emotional reactions and patterns of behavior, and perhaps most important of all, becoming very familiar with our fears.

To "know thyself" has been a pivotal part of most spiritual traditions; here we will be considering it in depth in order to free ourselves from the self-centered drama of "me.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

She said that war was about one thing and one thing only. False pride and resources.

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

Guess you play the part of God long enough, you begin to believe your own method acting.

Bossy people and glory hounds are mostly interested in building a power base so they can have yet more people to boss about. It's pitiful and a little sad, but we have all seen it. We saw it in school. We saw it in the playground. We saw it in college. And we saw it in our first job. If you are observant, you have been seeing it nearly all your life. Such

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

Some people mention the mistakes of others not to learn from them, but to claim they are perfect.

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Cuanto más me inclinaba a creer en mi importancia, más me dabas tú la sensación de mi nada...

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Pride comes from looking only at ourselves; meekness comes through looking at God.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.