Quotes About Ego

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate

The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More

In this regard, the pure Ego or pure Self is virtually identical with what the Hindus call Atman (or the pure Witness that itself is never witnessed—is never an object—but contains all objects in itself).

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

If not, they will once again contract and move down, to the lowest state possible, the gross, egoic realm, and there they will live the life of a typical human—some happiness, much sorrow, some joy, great suffering—until and unless they take up a spiritual practice and rediscover the higher realms of their own being, ultimately WAKING UP to their vast, pure, deep, spacious, Nondual Awareness or Clear Light Void, thence to assist others in their own Waking Up.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

The love of power is either due to low or overly high self-esteem.

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance, Ego & Immaturity.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.