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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment. -- Evan Esar
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you. -- Wayne Dyer
Ego is recessive in wisdom. -- Toba Beta
Ego is vital but not noble. -- Kedar Joshi
Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all. -- David Bohm
Ego & Hype have no place in business. -- Keshia Chante
Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential -- Rick Pitino
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. -- Max Planck
Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying -- Mooji
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big. -- Brad Bird
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Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened! -- Ram Dass
Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others. -- Nirmala Srivastava
More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego. -- Albert Einstein
Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time. -- Nikki Sixx
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. -- John Bradshaw
Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets -- Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. -- T.F. Hodge
The human Soul will only find its Light,when the Ego gives its permission. -- C.C. Campbell
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity. -- Dorothee Solle
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. -- Paul Valery
Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility. -- T.F. Hodge
Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself. -- Saurabh Sharma
Ego can't sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind. -- Charleston Parker
The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it. -- Ram Dass
The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal. -- Rumi
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit. -- Chogyam Trungpa
When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul -- Ram Dass
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. -- Robert Anton Wilson
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs. -- Lynda Obst
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves. -- Taite Adams
Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net -- Wayne Dyer
Ego vos mergam, nec merger a vobis. I sink you, that I will not be sunk by you. -- Stacia Kane
Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul. -- H. P. Blavatsky
I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy. -- Natalie Dormer
The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived. -- Samael Aun Weor
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World. -- Ameen Rihani
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego -- John Keats
I own and operate a ferocious ego. -- Bill Moyers
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The ego is not master in its own house. -- Sigmund Freud
Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag -- RuPaul
Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around. -- Eric Idle
Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact. -- Cameron Sinclair
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. -- Alan Watts
Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. -- Barry Gibb
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. -- Chris Lowe
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. -- Clare Boothe Luce
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. -- Cyril Connolly
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him? -- Bill Maher
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. -- John Cheever
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. -- Samuel Beckett
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision. -- Darren Johnson
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. -- Robin S. Sharma
Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible. -- Harvey Mackay
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. -- bell hooks
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. -- Ram Dass
I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there. -- Ashton Kutcher
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't. -- Alan Cohen
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. -- Eckhart Tolle
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. -- Steve Pavlina
I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me. -- Paul Mooney
Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. -- David D. Burns
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. -- Josh Brolin
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest. -- Paul Brunton
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. -- Ramana Maharshi
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. -- Lauryn Hill
I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself. -- Sonakshi Sinha
Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives. -- T. Harv Eker
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones. -- Jack Gleeson
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. -- Richard Dawkins
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! -- Pat Riley
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message. -- Madonna Ciccone
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. -- Eckhart Tolle
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear. -- Radhanath Swami
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. -- Christine Lagarde
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. -- Carl Jung
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. -- Jill Soloway
I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.' -- Mark Feuerstein
It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you -- Marc Lampe
The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by -- David Beckham
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon -- Vanna Bonta
I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career. -- Jim Boyd
The Ego, however, 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
The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun -- Starhawk
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. -- Deepak Chopra
My ego is sated. -- George Michael
Solitude is unquenched ego. -- Kedar Joshi
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Making love with his ego. -- David Bowie
Show me success without ego! -- Ivana Trump
We've got ego's like hairdos. -- Ani DiFranco
Awareness and ego cannot coexist. -- Eckhart Tolle
The ego knows itself by comparison. -- Richard Rohr
The unconscious creates, the ego edits. -- Stanley Kunitz
The ego taunts truth with sarcasm. -- T.F. Hodge
The ego is a fascinating monster. -- Alanis Morissette
Infinity: Time on an ego trip. -- Jane Wagner
Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity. -- Lee Clow
Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. -- Wayne Dyer
This rascal ego must be obliterated. -- Swami Vivekananda
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I can't live off the ego. -- Steven Tyler
Renunciation means death of false ego. -- Radhanath Swami

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