Quotes About Ego

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

Truly, if someone were to renounce a kingdom or the whole world while still holding on to themselves, then they would have renounced nothing at all.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size

Since self cannot be converted, it must be crucified. In no other way can one experience deliverance from the tyranny of self.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

I was brought up in a tradition of reading and thinking at university that, in a sense, left the body out. It was all about your mind. That good writing didn't have a "self" in it, didn't have an ego in it. Oh my God, I had so much to unlearn when I became a writer!

women have emotional needs, men have egotistical needs.

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

His eldest daughter, Alice, once described her father as wanting to be the "bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral."1

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

if you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-arts catalogues for machines that are never built," he explained. "I am as good a diagnostician of ecosystems as any doctor is of human beings, and I'm not on any damn ego trip when I say that. Sometimes I wish I did't have the knowledge hat I do, because I can get pretty damn glum.

Of all the thoughts that are formed in our mind, the first is the thought 'I'. Our mind first forms itself as the thought 'I', and only then does it form other thoughts. Without an 'I' to think or know them, no other thoughts could be formed. All the other thoughts that

To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?

It is the "gospel" of self, in which Jesus dies to make you into a bigger and better you, a "gospel" in which God is here to serve you and help you fulfill your dreams, and where the measure of all things is not how God feels about it but how you feel about it (or how it makes you feel).

What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.