Quotes About Ego

What truth, what light through my mind's window breaks? It is the east, and the Holy Spirit is the sun Arise my Friend, dissolve the ego moon who is already sick and pale with grief that thou the truth art far more great than he Oh It is the Christ Child, yes It is my Love and if I knew What I was, the brightness of my mind would shame the stars as daylight does a lamp My Mind in Heaven would through the unseen regions stream so bright the world would sing and knoweth not the night

You know what you are destined to continue to learn from. There is no substitute for reading the Text of the Course and the Workbook, even after you've already done the lessons. Use your mind to choose between the body and true spirit, and by doing so forgive the world. It is through your forgiveness that your ego will be undone.

We want recognition, not accomplishment.

Expansion to your ego, friend. -At your expense.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

Obedience liberates me from the tiny world of the ego.

Self aggrandizement is the most worthy and agreeable of sovereigns' occupations," the king wrote to the Marquis de Villars in 1688.7

I love being talked down to, Rocket. It's my favorite thing." -Tony Stark

These friends were his anchor; they kept him from floating off into the uncharted realms of his own self-regard.

Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't help being impressed with your own story. Because if you're not impressed with your own story, then who will be?

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

Martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fears, and hang-ups.

He was far more human, with all the failings that implied, than he'd ever admitted to himself. He was only a fool with an outsize ego, like every other fool who pranced and paraded through life, deluded they were somehow finer and better trained than most others, until shown the truth.

The Roaring Eighties were a new gilded age, where winning was celebrated at all costs.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

We're sorry for him because a germ he didn't have anything to do with got inside him and twisted him out of shape. Maybe we ought to feel the same way about guys with twisted egos.

Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.

So it is to Hitler. He has never moved when he couldn't get away with it.