Quotes About Ego

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

The second noble truth says that resistance is the fundamental operating mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

The third noble truth says that suffering ceases when we let go of trying to maintain the huge ME at any cost.

problem." On the contrary, the idea isn't to get rid of ego but actually to begin to take an interest in ourselves, to investigate and be inquisitive about ourselves. The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether has to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. The

Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well-being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.

Traditionally it's said that the cause of suffering is clinging to our narrow view. Another way to say the same thing is that resisting our complete unity with all of life, resisting the fact that we change and flow like the weather, that we have the same energy as all living things, resisting that is what's called ego.

The irony is that we make up the eight worldly dharmas. We make them up in reaction to what happens to us in this world. They are nothing concrete in themselves. Even more strange is that we are not all that solid either. We have a concept of ourselves that we reconstruct moment by moment and reflexively try to protect. But this concept that we are protecting is questionable. It's all "much ado about nothing"—like pushing and pulling a vanishing illusion.

Teachers and helpers of all kinds will be of limited use if they are doing their work to build up their own egos. In fact, setting out to help others is a very quick way to pop the bubble of ego.

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego.