Ego Quotes

“What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.”

“I will praise any man that will praise me.”

“I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.”

“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”

“Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.”

“Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.”

“No man is great if he thinks he is.”

“If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.”

“When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.”

“Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.”

“We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.”

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

“Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.”

“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”

“Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.”

“When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will”

“Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.”

“And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.”

“We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.”

“Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.”

“As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.”

“It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.”

“Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.”

“In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.”