Ego Quotes

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”

“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.”

“An empire is an immense egotism.”

“That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.”

“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”

“Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.”

“Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.”

“U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.”

“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”

“Love means to reach for the skyand with every breath to tear ahundred veils. Love means to stepaway from the ego, to open the eyesof inner vision and not to take thisworld so seriously”

“Do I want to be right or be happy?”

“If you still are growing, you go through the archetype of the statesman or stateswoman. You stop asking "What are my quotas?" and stop saying "What is in it for me?" and "How much can I get?" You begin to say, instead, "What are your quotas?" and, "How may I serve?" Providing for others becomes much more important in your life than what you can get for yourself.”

“I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.”

“Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.”

“When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.”

“Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.”

“As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.”

“[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.”

“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?”

“In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.”

“I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.”

“You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.”

“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.”