Quotes About Ego

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

His head was turned by too great success.

Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Happiness is egotistical.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes 'I am right', causes a lot of pain to others.