Quotes About Ego

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

Fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one's self off from the Universe.

In that dark chamber of my heart, where I confuse being right with being loved....

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be "egotistic" is not suffering from too much ego, but from too little. When the ego is strong and well developed, there is no nagging need to impress others--by money, by rudeness, or by any other show of false strength.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

I hate Russian dolls, they're so full of themselves.

Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.

I sniffed stardom. But my nose betrayed me.

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser.

Plenty of people take me for a pompous git way too fond of the sound of his own voice, which is absolutely fine with me. Go ahead and dismiss me; go right ahead and drop your guard.

Chögyam Trungpa, a contemporary Tibetan Buddhist teacher, writes, "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Wad Rayyes, you're a man who talks. rubbish. Your whole brain's in the head of your penis and the head of your penis is as small as your brain.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.