Ego Quotes

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

The ego is your enemy, not your friend.

As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.

The ego is not master in its own house.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

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.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

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.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.