Top 71 Ego Quotes

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Ego is the thought process where you make all of your decisions with you at the center. With that in mind, check out the top 71 ego quotes.

#71 – 70. Ego Quotes

71. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. – Benjamin Franklin

70. The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. – Mark Twain

#69 – 60. Ego Quotes

69. 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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

68. Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce

67. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. – Friedrich Nietzsche

66. An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! – Ambrose Bierce

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

64. If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. – John Lennon

63. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. – Michel de Montaigne

62. Your ego screams for people to acknowledge you. But you must do nothing. Take it. Eat it until you’re sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. – Ryan Holiday

61. Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

60. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. – Rainer Maria Rilke

#59 – 50. Ego Quotes

59. I like the moment when I break a man’s ego. – Bobby Fischer

58. Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

57. The gulf left by the absence of ego is quickly filled with knowledge. – Shane Parrish

56. When the ego dies, the soul awakes. – Mahatma Gandhi

55. The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. – Pema Chödrön

54. 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. – Dalai Lama

53. Mastery passes often for egotism. – Johann von Goethe

52. It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. – Muhammad Ali

51. To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. – Eckhart Tolle

50. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. – Max Planck

#49 – 40. Ego Quotes

49. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. – Wayne Dyer

48. Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it. – Colin Powell

47. The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. – Albert Einstein

46. Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle

45. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

44. He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

43. My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy. – Renzo Gracie

42. None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. – Benjamin Whichcote

41. Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. – Naval Ravikant

40. It’s the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent. – Ryan Holiday

#39 – 30. Ego Quotes

39. The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. – Muhammad Iqbal

38. Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Adlai Stevenson

37. Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. – John Lennon

36. The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. – Lucille S. Harper

35. A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress. – Ayn Rand

34. We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. – Winston Churchill

33. Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield

32. We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. – Anatole France

31. Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. – George V. Higgins

30. A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. – Jillian Michaels

#29 – 20. Ego Quotes

29. In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. – Edgar Cayce

28. The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. – E. M. Cioran

27. All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you. – Eckhart Tolle

26. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare

25. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. – Ray Dalio

24. Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. – John Bradshaw

23. Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. – Clint Eastwood

22. Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. – Marcus Aurelius

21. The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. – Alan Watts

20. There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

#19 – 10. Ego Quotes

19. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman

18. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. – Diana Black

17. The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. – Albert Einstein

16. The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot

15. If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – Arnold Bennett

14. The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself. – Byron Katie

13. Your ego is your self-image created by thought. It’s your social mask requiring validation because it lives in fear of losing its sense of identity. – Thibaut

12. All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. – Pema Chödrön

11. What will the world be quite overturned when you die? – Epictetus

10. Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. – Alan Cohen

#9 – 1. Ego Quotes

9. Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. – Andrew Murray

8. I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley

7. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. – Steven Pressfield

6. Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. – Osho

5. Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Buddha

4. Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It’s self-destructive. It’s a problem on all levels – even regular people can have big ego problems. – Yehuda Berg

3. I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. – Kurt Cobain

2. Where id was, there ego shall be. – Sigmund Freud

1. Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. – John Boyd

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