A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. Jillian Michaels
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. Rabindranath Tagore
Receive without pride, let go without attachment. Marcus Aurelius
Let us be more simple and less vain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. Criss Jami
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. Michel de Montaigne
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. St. Vincent de Paul
Silence is the respite of the confident and strong. Ryan Holiday
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better. Ryan Holiday
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. Adlai Stevenson
When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Destroy your illusions so you can see reality. Destroy your fears so you can take risks. Destroy your ego so you can see life. Maxime Lagacé
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. Ray Dalio
The Best Ego Quotes
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. Pema Chödrön
Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. Naval Ravikant
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Steven Pressfield (The War of Art)
Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. John Boyd
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy. Renzo Gracie
The bigger your heart, the more you love, the more you control your life. The bigger your ego, the more you’re scared, the more others control your life. Maxime Lagacé
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 (Ego Is The Enemy)
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself. Byron Katie
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. Benjamin Whichcote
Where id was, there ego shall be. Sigmund Freud
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. Michel de Montaigne
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. Albert Einstein
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Marcus Aurelius
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food. Anne Lamott
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. Muhammad Iqbal
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Benjamin Franklin
The gulf left by the absence of ego is quickly filled with knowledge. Shane Parrish
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. Andrew Murray
What Is Ego?
It’s the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent. Ryan Holiday
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. Pema Chödrön
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
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
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
Part 2. Ego Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Ego Quotes (Gandhi, Lao Tzu, Dalai Lama, etc.)
When the ego dies, the soul awakes. Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
Rule your mind or it will rule you. Buddhist saying
It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. Muhammad Ali
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego. Bobby Fischer (Chess player)
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
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
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. John Lennon
I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. Kurt Cobain
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress. Ayn Rand
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. Clint Eastwood
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. Mark Twain
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Bruce Lee
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. Stephen King
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn’t care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Ernest Hemingway
The walls of pride are high and wide, can’t see over to the other side. Bob Dylan
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. Winston Churchill
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Short Ego Quotes
One-liners, short ego quotes, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
Ego takes everything personally. Eckhart Tolle
Egotism sucks us down like the law of gravity. Cyril Connolly
The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal. Rumi
After success, keep working. Maxime Lagacé
Pride goes before destruction. Aesop
Men learn while they teach. Seneca
Work for a cause, not for applause. Unknown
Live life to express, not to impress. Unknown
Starve your ego. Feed your soul. Unknown
Bragging dims the soul. Unknown
Ego is the enemy. Ryan Holiday
Be capable of negating your ego. Robert Greene
It’s better to be ignorant than wrong. Shane Parrish
Outcomes over ego. Shane Parrish
The ego isn’t a real thing, it’s just the unexamined mind. Thibaut
Fragile egos make for fragile friendships. @TheStoicEmperor
Truth above everything. Naval Ravikant
Drop ego and listen. Empathize. Naval Ravikant
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Inspirational Ego Quotes
Slow but steady wins the race. Aesop
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care. Criss Jami
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. Bertrand Russell
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. Robert H. Schuller
Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room — until you change that with results. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. It’s pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done. Robin Sharma
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source. Debbie Ford
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. Deepak Chopra
It’s not the great stars that win; it’s the great teams that win. It’s the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first. Robert Kraft
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. Hubert Humphrey
Celebrate, but not too loudly. Be proud, but not for too long. Maxime Lagacé
When one is without ego, one becomes infinitely free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always. Mooji
The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Paul Graham
Maybe your parents will never be impressed, maybe your girlfriend won’t care. Maybe the investor won’t see the numbers, maybe the audience won’t clap. But we have to be able to push through. We can’t let that be what motivates us. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
It’s not about beating the other guy. It’s not about having more than the others. It’s about being what you are and being as good as possible at it without succumbing to all the things that draw you away from it. It’s about going where you set out to go. About accomplishing the most you’re capable in what you choose. That’s it. No more and no less. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Instead of treating events as wins or losses, ask “Did I learn something I can apply in the future?” If not, you must treat it as a loss. Naval Ravikant
Learn to fail with pride – and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error – by mastering the error part. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read books that challenge your beliefs and make you feel stupid. You don’t get better by protecting your ego. You get better by exposing it to truth and being vulnerable. This is how you remain fluid and grow. @TheAncientSage
When you drop ego, you can have great fun because you are no longer taking anything personally. You are a detached observer which has a peculiar joy of its own. Ego is a source of great tension. Egoistic people are anxious, self-defensive and uptight. Drop the ego and chill out. @TheAncientSage
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. Carl Gustav Jung
Fixed mindset is about ego, growth mindset is about presence. Unknown
Funny And Surprising Ego Quotes
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence J. Peter
Ego trip: a journey to nowhere. Robert Half
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. Ted Turner
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. Margaret Fuller
If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. Douglas Adams
I have an ego the size of a small planet. Linus Torvalds (Linux)
Egoist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. Ambrose Bierce
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James McNeill Whistler
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. Mary H. Waldrip
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. Robert Brault
There’s no ego when you’re a ukulele player. Jake Shimabukuro
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. Welsh proverb
I don’t want to see you. I don’t like you. I don’t like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You’re impertinent. You’re too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)
Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants. Stephen King
I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. Samuel Goldwyn
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand. Fred Allen
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Deep (And Sometimes Dark) Ego Quotes
If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Marina Abramovic
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
We cannot bear very much reality, we are biased to protect our egos against the onslaught of unwelcome truths. Garrett Hardin
The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum
Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Eckhart Tolle
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego. Alan Cohen
If you never smile, you’re too serious. If you never help, you’re narcissist. If you never give, you never love. Maxime Lagacé
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body. Ram Dass
The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three… The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id. Sigmund Freud
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness – and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty. Mark Twain
If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe. No, you’re not big. No, you’re not. You’re small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that’s limited on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash! Alan Watts
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman
Our ego is our silent partner – too often with a controlling interest. Cullen Hightower
That’s how it seems to go: We’re never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
The voice inside your head shapes what you see, think, and feel. It protects your ego, even if that means distorting reality. Shane Parrish
Some people’s insecurity and ego fragility cannot tolerate the slightest offense. Robert Greene
Once the ego inflates it will only come back to earth through some jarring failure. Robert Greene
Man is not a rational animal he is a rationalizing animal. Robert A. Heinlein
Leave the ego otherwise everyone will leave you. Unknown
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Wise Ego Quotes (Words Of Wisdom)
The loudest in the room is the weakest one in the room. Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington in the movie American Gangster)
Fools try to make themselves bigger. The wise try to make themselves smaller. Maxime Lagacé
The fools in life want things fast and easy — money, success, attention. Robert Greene
The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what’s already there. Marianne Williamson
Let your action be free of all traces of ego. When an action is free of ego it leaves no problems in its wake. @TheAncientSage
For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. Deepak Chopra
The Ego is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. Deepak Chopra
What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation. Paramahansa Yogananda
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. Ali ibn Abi Talib
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are. Ray Dalio
Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right. Mike Maples Jr
A willingness to be wrong in conversation can help you avoid being wrong in a costlier arena. Better to lose an argument than a fortune, or a war. @TheStoicEmperor
A boaster and a liar are cousins. German proverb
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. Niccolò Machiavelli
Nations have their ego, just like individuals. James Joyce
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. Osho
The great corrupter of public men is the ego — corrupter because distracter. Dean Acheson
Something good should be a source of pride, correct? ‘Yes’. And can one really take pride in a momentary pleasure? Please don’t say yes. Marcus Aurelius
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
I think the hard thing here is seeing the truth. To see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn’t want to face the truth. Naval Ravikant
The smaller you can make your ego, the less conditioned you can make your reactions, the less desires you can have about the outcome you want, the easier it to see the reality. Naval Ravikant
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. Zen proverb
We are vulnerable to the effects of truths we are unwilling to face. Perhaps they threaten our ego or the mental model that structures our routine. Disturbing information is easily rationalized or ignored. Trouble grows in the shadows we fear to illuminate. @TheStoicEmperor
Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem “in the know.” They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner. @TheStoicEmperor
It is a narrow passageway that leads to the garden of contentment. Big egos don’t fit. @TheStoicEmperor
The key is to ego is distinguishing between when it’s serving you and when it’s getting in your way. Shane Parrish
On the sentence “I’ve changed my mind”: Four simple and underused words. Naval Ravikant
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Part 3. Ego Quotes About…
Quotes About Getting Rid Of The Ego (Taming The Ego)
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. Robert Brault
If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down. Nirmala Srivastava
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. Jean de la Bruyere
Fools, because of fear, accumulate and consume. The wise, because of love, give and create. Maxime Lagacé
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Deepak Chopra
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Unknown
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Sir Walter Scott
What I’ve found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. Ryan Holiday
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Criss Jami
Fight your own pride and ego and be open-minded and always learning new techniques, new things from anyone. Sam Sheridan
Be lesser, do more. Imagine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness. Rumi
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. Wallace D. Wattles
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. Eckhart Tolle
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action. Suzanne Mayo Frindt
Identity invites confirmation bias, which neutralizes your ability to learn. Shedding identity is a prerequisite to wisdom. Michael
If there’s one skill which can substantially improve the life of every single person, it is emotional self-control. If you drop your ego, don’t take things personally and adopt a detached perspective, your ability to deal with all types of people/situations will immensely improve. @TheAncientSage
The more you dis-identify with your ego, the more complete is your freedom. @TheAncientSage
Ego Quotes About Pride, Self-Importance, Narcissism
Pride is ugly. It says ‘If you succeed I am a failure’. Ezra Taft Benson
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Lord Chesterfield
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves. Hugh Prather
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Brontë
Fools try to impress. The wise simply express. Maxime Lagacé
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. C.S. Lewis
Every ego wants to be special. If it can’t be special by being superior to others, it’s also quite happy with being especially miserable. Eckhart Tolle
Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego. Eckhart Tolle
Signs of spiritual retardation: Aversion to solitude. Conscious of status in the herd. Invested in social formalities. Talkative and un-self-aware. Indulging in petty vanities. Focused on improving and projecting appearance. Materialistic snob. Completely identified with the ego. @TheAncientSage
Why did the insult bother you? If it is false, it has no weight. If it is true, it is better to know. Either way, you are unharmed. @TheStoicEmperor
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. J. Petit-Senn
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame. Jocko Willink
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Jiddu Krishnamurti
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. Gina Lindley
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference. Mason Cooley
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world’s fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others. M. Scott Peck
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. Bertrand Russell
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. Sam Vaknin
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. Frederick Buechner
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen
Never let pride or concern for your reputation pull you farther into the morass; both will suffer far greater blows by your persistence. Robert Greene
One big mistake I see people make over and over is focusing on proving themselves right, instead of focusing on achieving the best outcome. Shane Parrish
We overestimate the importance of what we focus on because we think we are special people in a special time and place. Naval Ravikant
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson
We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire
Ego Quotes About Arrogance, Fear, Anger
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. Diane Black
One of the ego’s favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt. Ram Dass
There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Eckhart Tolle
Those who are arrogant are insecure. Those who are humble are courageous. Those who don’t care about their status are wise. Maxime Lagacé
Remind yourself how pointless it is to rage and fight and try to one-up those around you. Go and put yourself in touch with the infinite, and end your conscious separation from the world. Reconcile yourself a bit better with the realities of life. Realize how much came before you, and how only wisps of it remain. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
Fear of fear is the birth place of the ego, its resting place and its final destination. Mircea Macave
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others. Wayne Dyer
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead. Criss Jami
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it. Criss Jami
The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience. Criss Jami
The desire for self-development stems from “narcissistic” desires, a tendency to self-aggrandizement and superiority over others. Sigmund Freud
Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ or ‘right’. It never fails to see the little picture. Robert Holden
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle
We’re all the stars of our own movies, but cutting back on the number of “Do you know who I am?” thoughts made my life infinitely smoother. Dan Harris
Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
It doesn’t matter how well you’re doing, your ego and their accomplishments make you feel like nothing. Ryan Holiday (Ego Is The Enemy)
When you’re upset because someone doesn’t like you, it’s your ego operating: you validate your existence based on their approval. Thibaut
People will come up with extraordinarily convoluted theories to avoid admitting that they have been wrong about something. @TheStoicEmperor
Many who appear to be seeking widespread popularity are in fact seeking acceptance. Disappointment awaits. Public prominence ensures that you will always be hearing from people who will never accept you. Sensitive people are better off cultivating a few close relationships. @TheStoicEmperor
An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside. Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. Rumi
No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. Marcus Aurelius
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves. Marcus Aurelius
Picking the glamorous choice is almost always a bad decision. Life Math Money
The greatest prison of all is the one our ego puts us in. Shane Parrish
We optimize for short-term ego protection over long-term happiness. Shane Parrish
The ego is antifragile. When attacked it inflates to protect itself. Michael
Part 4. Conclusion
Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr
