Quotes About Ego

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Richard Marsh

The young guns on your team will always want to write things themselves because it appeases their ego, whereas your more experienced people are more likely to accept that someone else has given thought to the problem domain and has something to offer in terms of a solution.

Of course, if your ego can't get you to believe stories about yourself that make you feel superior, then it will look for ones that make you feel inferior instead. It will turn your thoughts to stories that make you feel weak and unworthy, as if you are an inconvenience, a burden on others, a failure, unattractive, incapable, or stupid.

It is for this reason that your ego cannot let you become fully present, for the moment you are, it recedes and there is only awareness, only being. And this scares your ego to death, because it hasn't yet understood its relationship to awareness.

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

They're too busy building monuments to themselves.

You will see that when it comes to the masses, the stupider the individual, the more they want to prove it to the world.

Every basketball wimp needs a lesson, and you seem to think you're somewhere above your true station in life.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

If I were a man, I'd definitely sleep with myself. In other words, if you tell me to go fuck myself, I take it as a compliment.—581 Ways To Kill Your Boss

What a wonderful person I am!

We get into fights or lust for imperial dominion over another nation for reasons of pride.

If today people sit and meditate only one or two hours, looking only at their own egos, and call this reflection, how can anything come of it?

Genuine modesty sets one to creating order and inspires one to begin by disciplining one's own ego and one's immediate circle. Only through having the courage to marshal one's armies against oneself, will something forceful really be achieved.

In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.

Yes, me." She made a claw of her hand and clutched at her collarbone. "Me. Me. Me. Oh, you poor, self-deluded—Look at you! Look at you, and tell me how by any stretch"—she tossed her head, and the grin of her teeth glistened white in the moonlight—"by any stretch of the imagination you can call yourself a man!

Everything about her has to do with me.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

You're imagining things. Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind. -Rose Hathaway

Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian. And—at the risk of sounding egotistical —I mean, well, I can do a lot of pretty awesome things that most people can't." Adrian: "Don't I know it. You can change a tire in ten minutes while speaking Greek." Sydney: "Five minutes.

Clearly my stunning beauty has clouded your mind." - Rose Hathaway

If the same guy's still here, he's not really all that stable either. Actually has the balls to call himself Golden Arrow.