75 Ego Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing Ego quotes and sayings.
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Short Ego Quotes and Sayings
“Ego is recessive in wisdom.” —Toba Beta
“The ego is not master in its own house.” —Sigmund Freud
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.” —Gary Hopkins
“I live for myself and I answer to nobody.” —Steve Mcqueen
“Don’t lose hope, just lose your ego with work and patience.” —Unknown
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.” —Michel de Montaigne
“Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.” —Chögyam Trungpa
“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.” —Thomas Carlyle
“The ego is not master in its own house.” —Sigmund Freud
“Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.” —Nikki Sixx
“Everybody needs to lower his ego.” —Bhumibol Adulyadej
“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” —Criss Jami
“Ego is the number one cause of failed and broken relationships.” —Unknown
“Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.” —Diana Black
“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” —Rig Veda
“Drop this ego, drop this idea that you are somebody special.” —Unknown
“Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.” —Max Planck
“If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.” —Edgar Ramirez
“Ego must go. How high you go, stay low.” —Unknown
“Ego trip: a journey to nowhere.” —Robert Half
“The Ego is a veil between humans and God.” —Rumi
“All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.” —Ramakrishna
“In any individual sport you’re going to have an ego.” —Unknown
“Don’t feed your ego with my soul.” —Arzum Uzun
“Ego repulses real wisdom and changes.” —Unknown
“An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!” —Ambrose Bierce
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.” —Alan Watts
“It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.” —Unknown
“When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.” —Yogi Bhajan
“Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.” —Nick Woodman
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“Great people have great egos; maybe that’s what makes them great.” —Paul Arden
“Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.” —Wayne Dyer
Ego Quotes and Sayings
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.” —Muhammad Iqbal
“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 S. Sharma
“Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship…so be the bigger person skip the ‘E’ and let it ‘GO’.” —Unknown
“When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.” —George Moore
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
“Ego does not always mean that you are proud of yourself. Once you start acting arrogantly and shouting at others, you already have it.” —Unknown
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.” —Sigmund Freud
“Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.” —Unknown
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.” —Garth Brooks
“Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.” —Marina Abramovic
“Never try to dominate the one who says sorry to you for their mistake because, they understand, you are more important than their ego.” —Unknown
“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.” —Hamza Yusuf
“Egotist is a person who has low standards which results to admiring his own self.” —Unknown
“Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.” —George Santayana
“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
“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.” —Fred Durst
“Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.” —Suzanne Mayo Frindt
“Ego has this ability to blind you so you will not be able to see your very own mistakes.” —Unknown
“Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.” —Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
“Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.” —Suzanne Mayo Frindt
“If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.” —Jocko Willink
“If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an EGO problem.” —Nouman Ali Khan
“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” —Lucille S. Harper
“The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.” —Sri Guru Granth
“Your ego takes a severe beating, and you have to put it behind you and move on.” —Unknown
“Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool.” —Dr. Herbert Shofield
“When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.” —Sufian Chaudhary
“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.” —Warsan Shire
“If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” —Erich Fromm
“Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.” —Darren L. Johnson
“They play to each other’s strengths. They play with an unselfish spirit, and they play to win without any ego.” —Unknown
Top Ten Ego Quotes and Sayings
Here you will find Top Ten Ego quotes and sayings selected by our team.
- “The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.” —Muhammad Iqbal
- “The Ego is a veil between humans and God.” —Rumi
- “Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.” —Marina Abramovic
- “Never try to dominate the one who says sorry to you for their mistake because, they understand, you are more important than their ego.” —Unknown
- “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.” —Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
- “If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.” —Edgar Ramirez
- “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
- “Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship…so be the bigger person skip the ‘E’ and let it ‘GO’.” —Unknown
- “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.” —Hamza Yusuf
