Quotes About Ego

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.