Ego Quotes and Sayings
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
- Chogyam Trungpa
I’m tired of the egos, I’m tired of the bullshit, I’m tired of being ignored and forgotten by ‘Friends!’
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
- Dorothee Sölle
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
~ Terri Guillemets
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
- Jean Vanier
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.
- Suzanne Mayo Frindt
A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
- Ayn Rand
Mastery passes often for egotism.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
- George V. Higgins
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~ Mary H. Waldrip
I feel so trapped, by my ego.
- T. Scott McLeod
Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
- Wilson Mizner
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
~J. Petit-Senn
It’s so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else’s reality than they do, and such a waste of time.
- Shreve Stockton