Quotes About Ego

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

The mind which is reluctant to change or alter is "ME and I". The mind which is ready to get empty and altered is "BUDDHA".

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.