Quotes About Ego

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

I'm not here to promote your pride.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Pride can make you feel strong, but never make you feel happy.

Compliments can boost confidence. It also can amplify an ego. Be careful.

If you are hotter than me, does that make me cooler than you?

Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree that nothing will satisfy the arrogant except false flattery and fake praise.

Pride is yet another form of ego. It keeps us in the past and closes our eyes on the now. It stops us from letting go and being free.

The most important thing about being humble is to remember not to show off your humbleness. That defeats the purpose.

She told me that I'm overly arrogant and cocky but she likes it....So much for me being humble.