Quotes About Ego

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Everybody thinks they are right

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

Deep thoughts about the universe mean nothing if you keep putting yourself in the centre of it.

Confidence is not arrogance.

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

Self importance is pride of a soul.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.