1,899 Quotes About Ego

What is unfair is, not life, but our demanding—as microscopic a part of life and as unnecessary to life as we are—that life happen as per our desires, which are always selfish … and almost always petty.

Sometimes losing is better than gaining.

Be so much of a man that your woman has no reason to sound like your mother.

You want to hear something sweet and you want to hear the truth. How are both things possible at the same time?

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behaviour with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake *that* for who they are.If you are alert and present, you can point out behaviour without ego involvement (making the other person wrong).

The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite

If there is 50kg load on your head, you can let go of it. But here the question is of letting go of your entire self. If you save even a bit of yourself, the magic won't happen. Instead you will twist yourself. So many twisted minds and egos out there!

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always.