Quotes About Ego

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

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

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.

The tools that strengthen the soul are understanding and living in objective love, engaging in the sensing exercise and meditation to strengthen the soul, and practicing love, compassion and humility to free it from the bondage of ego. Those are the basics." "That's

On the small neutral ground of self-importance, the best men and the worst meet on the same terms.

He is never fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a slave . . . .

To rise again - to be the same person that you were - you must have your memory perfectly fresh and present; for it is memory that makes your identity. If your memory be lost, how will you be the same man? Why do mankind flatter themselves that they alone are gifted with a spiritual and immortal principle? Perhaps from their inordinate vanity. I am persuaded that if a peacock could speak he would boast of his soul, and would affirm that it inhabited his magnificent tail.

we go through our social lives convinced that everything we are saying, doing and feeling is being closely examined by those around us even though, in reality, they are all preoccupied with themselves, equally convinced the spotlight is on them.

Nothing was more tiresome than a candidate who started to believe his own spin.

He was always too conscious of himself and of the impression he was creating on others – an infallible sign of the vain and the fraudulent.

Chasing waves in a dedicated way was both profoundly egocentric and selfless, dynamic and ascetic, radical in its rejection of the values of duty and conventional achievement.

ego swimming up behind them, to peer at him suspiciously, something eel-like, larval, transparently boned. He had its full attention. "If things had gone differently

I, insofar as I have an I

Her head was perfectly still, eyes unblinking. He imagined her ego swimming up behind them, to peer at him suspiciously, something eel-like, larval, transparently boned. He had its full attention.

Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved ... grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die. And one step in that dance was the lightest touch on the switch, barely enough to flip- -now and his voice the cry of a bird unknown, she answered in song, three notes, high and pure. A true name.

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings set neatly and clothes handsomely.

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

What is modesty but inverted pride?