1,899 Quotes About Ego

Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

I'm everything that you're not.

You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.

We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.

The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there.