- “There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
- “A fellow who claims to be a leader should have people follow him. Otherwise, he will be wise to swallow his hollow ego and jolly well answer, Mellow Fellow.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty ‘n’ Worthy African Proverbs – Volume 1
- “Act as if you don’t know me, and i will make it seem as though you don’t exist.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “When we realize what ego is, we become ashamed.” ― Mihail Militaru
- “Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is “lucky” to have us. We are all full of it.” ― Donna Lynn Hope
- The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal. Rumi
- “Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.” ― Beatrice Potter Webb, My Apprenticeship
- “Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.” ― Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego – Real Communication
- I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. Kurt Cobain
- “Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “The createst trick the ego has ever pulled of was to convince you that you need it.” ― Can Arel
- “A human touch is explosive. It’s so warm that it melts away everything, including our ego.” ― Uday Mukerji, Dead Man Dreaming
- “If the ego rules you then the love fails you.” ― Akash B Chandran
- “In normal everyday usage, “I” embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as “an optical illusion of consciousness.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- “Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don’t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.” ― Gina Lake, What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
- We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Steven Pressfield (The War of Art)
- “A small ego equals A BIG HEART – Manprit Kaur” ― Manprit Kaur
- “Time spent in anger is a double edged sword. Not only is it a phenomenal waste of time, it also damages your health and thus shortens the time you have left.” ― Freequill
- “The hilarious irony is that Buddhists – who deny the existence of the self – are the most self-obsessed people you can find. The idea of karma is a clear marker of self-obsession. People actually believe that the vast cosmos is infatuated about what they do – as opposed to completely indifferent – and goes to all the trouble of rearranging itself to teach them personal karmic “lessons.” ― Jack Tanner, Endarkenment: New Age Fake Enlightenment
- “When you’re watching your baby son die, or your child fight to live and learn to walk again or watch your wife lose her memory or or or … when you KNOW what matters in life … the little battles we naturally experience over ego seem to disappear because they are overshadowed by gratitude. ” ― Richie Norton
- “Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.” ― Balroop Singh
- “A gentleman goes in search of flattery as keenly as a bee hunts for pollen.” ― Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur’s Son & Other Wild Tales
- “After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.” ― Gary Gordon
- Dissolve your ego before it dissolves your self. Maxime Lagacé
- “If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won’t stand in the way of a meaningful apology.” ― Unarine Ramaru
- We cannot bear very much reality, we are biased to protect our egos against the onslaught of unwelcome truths. Garrett Hardin
- “Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: “You want to be happy or you want to be right?” ― Aditya Ajmera
- “Spiritual enlightenment includes the realization that there is no ‘there’ to go to, and no one to go.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.” ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade