Quotes About Ego

I have always been an arrogant man.

La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt.

To Expirience Divine Love, Drop the Ego. Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

When hatred serves as a dimension of self-realization, the illusion of righteousness is easy to create.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Francisco's f***ing ego, which was already large enough to house the world's poor twice over, with a few million bourgeoisie in the spare-room.

Money is nothing more than arrogance on paper.

What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

and the money is so good, they become intoxicated not only with the riches—they become intoxicated with themselves.

Your ego and reality sometimes fight each other. Reality is staring you in the face, but your ego doesn't want to accept it.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

Uno no debería rezar si esa oración es vanidad.

Sirri al-Siqati, que murió en 867 de la era cristiana, dijo: La verdadera sabiduría es el no apego al yo y la devoción a la verdad.

Very often, people believe they are doing "significant" things when they merely want an interchange of attention.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

la experiencia de conversión, de cualquier clase que ella sea, tiene como común denominador un derrumbamiento total del ego.

we can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.