1,899 Quotes About Ego

When you’re watching your baby son die, or your child fight to live and learn to walk again or watch your wife lose her memory or or or ... when you KNOW what matters in life ... the little battles we naturally experience over ego seem to disappear because they are overshadowed by gratitude. ⁣

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

After a partnership dispute, most of the partners will leave the alliance but not their arrogance.

In partnership disputes, most of the partners will leave the alliance but not their arrogance

We will never rise on the wings of our own ingenuity or wisdom, for those are the things that lift nothing other than our ego in the process of crashing our lives. Rather, it is the surrender of the smallness of self to the enormity of God that allows us to soar.

Maturity involves turning an insult into a feedback.

Master Teachers who genuinely embody an enlightened state of being never stop “doing the work”. The ego is what assumes it knows enough, causing cessation of these daily practices, and therefore, Masters without attachment to ego are forever students of the Universe. The Masters attain an illuminated state of “Being” as the outcome, yet it is the consistent “doing” that promotes and maintains their enlightenment.