The Ego is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. @ -Deepak Chopra
Leave the ego otherwise everyone will leave you.
If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self. @ -Robert Tew
The loudest person in the room is usually the least self-confident.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Rule your mind or it will rule you. @ -Buddha
The ego gets what it wants with words. The soul finds what it needs in silence. @ -Richard Rohr
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. @ -George Clooney
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Starve your ego. Feed your soul.
The Ego's job is to kill everything but itself. @ -Byron Katie
When you drop ego, you can have great fun because you are no longer taking anything personally. You are a detached observer which has a peculiar joy of its own. Ego is a source of great tension. Egoistic people are anxious, self-defensive and uptight. @ -The Ancient Sage
Fixed mindset is about ego, growth mindset is about presence.
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. @ -Osho
Fight your own pride and ego and be open-minded and always learning new techniques, new things from anyone. @ -Sam Sheridan
Your ego is your self-image created by thought. It's your social mask requiring validation because it lives in fear of losing its sense of identity. @ -Thibaut
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. @ -Wayne Dyer
Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first.
The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there. @ -Marianne Williamson
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. @ -Clint Eastwood
Silence is the respite of the confident and strong. @ -Ryan Holiday
Ego takes everything personally. @ -Eckhart Tolle
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. @ -Albert Einstein
Truth above everything. @ -Naval Ravikant
Apologizing does not mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. @ -Albert Einstein
Fail. Learn. Grow.
Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. @ -Naval Ravikant
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Don't worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. @ -Ray Dalio
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. @ -Carl Gustav Jung
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. @ -Benjamin Whichcote
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room - until you change that with results. @ -Ryan Holiday
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. @ -Criss Jami
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. @ -Epictetus
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. @ -Ali Ibn Abi Talib
When ego is in control it judges and punishes. But love forgives and heals. @ -Angie Karan
The fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. @ -Robert Greene
The smaller you can make your ego, the less conditioned you can make your reactions, the less desires you can have about the outcome you want, the easier it to see the reality. @ -Naval Ravikant
Work for a cause, not for applause.
Drop ego and listen. Empathize. @ -Naval Ravikant
If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down. @ -Nirmala Srivastava
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. @ -Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation. @ -Paramahansa Yogananda
When the ego dies, the soul awakes. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Bragging dims the soul.
You can't have it all, all at once. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side. @ -Bob Dylan
Some people's insecurity and ego fragility cannot tolerate the slightest offense. @ -Robert Greene
I think the hard thing here is seeing the truth. To see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn't want to face the truth. @ -Naval Ravikant
Your ego screams for people to acknowledge you. But you must do nothing. Take it. Eat it until you're sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. @ -Ryan Holiday
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. @ -Benjamin Franklin
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. @ -Steven Pressfield
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. @ -Aesop
When you're alone, watch your thoughts. When you're successful, watch your ego. When you've got problems, watch your emotions. When you're with the crowds, watch what you say. @ -Crypto Seneca
You're not as good as you think. You don't have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better. @ -Ryan Holiday
The more you dis-identify with your ego, the more complete is your freedom. @ -The Ancient Sage
Let your action be free of all traces of ego. When an action is free of ego it leaves no problems in its wake. @ -The Ancient Sage
The ego isn't a real thing, it's just the unexamined mind. @ -Thibaut
Be capable of negating your ego. @ -Robert Greene
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. @ -Criss Jami
The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion. @ -Dalai Lama
A willingness to be wrong in conversation can help you avoid being wrong in a costlier arena. Better to lose an argument than a fortune, or a war. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. @ -Dr. Robert Schuller
Ego is the enemy. @ -Ryan Holiday
The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal. @ -Rumi
Once the ego inflates it will only come back to earth through some jarring failure. @ -Robert Greene
Ego is about who's right. Truth is about what's right. @ -Mike Maples Jr
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. @ -Deepak Chopra
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. @ -Lao Tzu
Men learn while they teach. @ -Seneca
To be honest, speak without identity. @ -Naval Ravikant
Slow but steady wins the race. @ -Aesop
Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. @ -Eckhart Tolle
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. @ -Pema Chödrön
You are not your thoughts, you are the one listening to them.
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. @ -Ram Dass
Confidence is when you believe in yourself and your abilities, arrogance is when you think you are better than others and act accordingly. @ -Stewart Stafford
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. @ -Michel de Montaigne
When one is without ego, one becomes infinitely free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always. @ -Mooji
Live life to express, not to impress.
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don't take it all too seriously, that you don't fill up on junk food. @ -Anne Lamott
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. @ -Alan Cohen
Where id was, there ego shall be. @ -Sigmund Freud
Egotism sucks us down like the law of gravity. @ -Cyril Connolly
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. @ -Deepak Chopra
Fragile egos make for fragile friendships. @ -The Stoic Emperor
The voice inside your head shapes what you see, think, and feel. It protects your ego, even if that means distorting reality. @ -Shane Parrish
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. @ -Frank Leahy
The gulf left by the absence of ego is quickly filled with knowledge. @ -Shane Parrish
It's better to be ignorant than wrong. @ -Shane Parrish
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. @ -Mark Twain
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. @ -Suzanne Mayo Frindt
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. @ -Jean de La Bruyère
What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness. @ -Ryan Holiday
Let us be more simple and less vain. @ -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I like the moment when I break a man's ego. @ -Bobby Fischer
Identity invites confirmation bias, which neutralizes your ability to learn. Shedding identity is a prerequisite to wisdom.
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. @ -Ayn Rand
It's the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent. @ -Ryan Holiday
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. @ -Rainer Maria Rilke
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Outcomes over ego. @ -Shane Parrish
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. @ -William Shakespeare
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. @ -Adlai Stevenson
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. @ -Rabindranath Tagore
Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. @ -John Boyd
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. @ -Colin Powell
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. @ -Stephen King
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. @ -Bertrand Russell
For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. @ -Louisa May Alcott
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. @ -John Lennon
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. @ -Harry S. Truman
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. @ -Muhammad Iqbal
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. @ -Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. @ -Robert Fulghum
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. @ -Ernest Hemingway
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. @ -Mark Twain
Our ego is our silent partner – too often with a controlling interest. @ -Cullen Hightower
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. @ -Pema Chödrön
The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. @ -Paul Graham
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. @ -Marcus Aurelius
The key is to ego is distinguishing between when it's serving you and when it's getting in your way. @ -Shane Parrish
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy. @ -Renzo Gracie
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. @ -Hubert Humphrey
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are. @ -Ray Dalio
It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. @ -Muhammad Ali
Receive without pride, let go without attachment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first. @ -Robert Kraft
For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment. @ -Eckhart Tolle
That's how it seems to go: We're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. @ -Ryan Holiday
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. @ -Robert Brault
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. @ -St. Vincent de Paul
Pride goes before destruction. @ -Aesop
In the battle of egos, both competitors lose. @ -Robin Sharma
The ego is not master in its own house. @ -Sigmund Freud
I don't care what you think unless it is about me. @ -Kurt Cobain
A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. @ -Jillian Michaels
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. @ -Oscar Wilde
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. @ -Deepak Chopra
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. @ -Criss Jami
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. @ -Andrew Murray
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. @ -John Lennon
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done. @ -Robin Sharma
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. @ -Bruce Lee
