Quotes About Ego

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the knights quite fulfills a man's ego like an automobile.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Small things make base men proud.

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

In following him, I follow but myself.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

Who is it that says most? which can say moreThan this rich praise,—that you alone are you?

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all. . . . The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Flattery works like a drug.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

The worst-tempered people I`ve ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Failure has gone to his head.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.

No restless, quick, flame-like ego is imagined for the inside of it. It has no inside.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.