Quotes About Ego

The day when on the cover of my books, my name will appear in bigger fond than the title of my book- I will stop writing because that would be the death of the writer in me.

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Vanity dulls the senses.

The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

My ego is my employee – and I, the witness, am its employer.

wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise

The time will come for the individual soul to open up to the awareness that it is not the body, the ego, the limitations, the thoughts, the personality, and so forth.

True wisdom comes from the soul, not the brain. When we cut off the soul by giving our power away to the ego part of ourselves, it's as if we're minimizing who we truly are.

It's not in our human nature to acknowledge our personal contribution in inspiring the world. Humility can prevent us from seeing the forest for the trees.

This was why men exhausted her so. It was a wonder the world didn't collapse daily from the weight of men's egos, she thought.

There are plenty of reasons why I write. This is just one of them. The sense that I want to own something, own my work, own my creativity, own my name. It is perhaps not the purest reason, not truest of heart, for there is some ego attached to it. But it is real.

don't let the pride take over reason

Was his ego so twisted that he had to seize control over outcomes? No, it was almost worse than that. He was driven to console people, to bind them up, to protect them from the worst—an ambition that often got in the way of the Holy Spirit's ministrations. . . . He didn't know if it was so loving to protect people. Perhaps really loving meant not protecting them.

As far as I could tell, Mount Sherman had no ego, no desire to create its own destiny. It was surrendered, as all of nature is surrendered. The wilderness gives us that example continually.

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .

Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2)

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

The more we cling to the belief in a self, the more pain and alienation we feel.