Apologizing does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
A simple apology could fix a friendship that shouldn’t have ended in the first place. Don’t let your ego stop you from doing what’s right.
Never try to dominate the one who says sorry to you for their mistake because, they understand, you are more important than their ego.
I’m tired of the egos, I’m tired of the bullshit, I’m tired of being ignored and forgotten by ‘Friends!’
Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship…so be the bigger person skip the ‘E’ and let it ‘GO’ :-)
Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect,and the absence of ego.
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your ego speaks with me, then my attitude replies to you.
Too much ego will kill your talent.
Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
– Wilson Mizner
If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an EGO problem.
– Nouman Ali Khan
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
– Mary H. Waldrip
Ego must go. How high you go, stay low.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
– Paulo Coelho
Choose what’s good for your soul, not your ego.
Wash your ego. Before it makes a stain on your life.
Don’t lose hope, just lose your ego with work and patience.
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
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
– J. Petit-Senn
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
– Edmund Burke
The desire for self-development stems from ‘narcissistic’ desires, a tendency to self-aggrandizement and superiority over others.
– Sigmund Freud
Never ignore those persons who say sorry for their mistakes because for them, you are important not, their ego.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
– Laurence J. Peter
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
– George Clooney
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
– Chogyam Trungpa
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
– Colin Powell
An inferiority complex is when the ego is frustrated; whereas, humility is when the ego is rejected.
– Radhanath Swami
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
– Lord Chesterfield
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
– Lucille S. Harper
“So many egoistic people I have met but you the most”, my mirror said.
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
– Albert Einstein
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
– Dorothee Sölle
Do not allow your ego to defend your honor, for the ego seeks only to defend itself, and therefore your honor will be left defenseless and you without honor.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
– Barry Switzer
A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
– Ayn Rand
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
Ego makes you see yourself high just let the ‘e’ go and you will be free.
As long as the ego runs your life, most of your thoughts, emotions, and actions arise from desire and fear.
– Eckhart Tolle
Great people have great egos; maybe that’s what makes them great.
– Paul Arden
Some people’s insecurity and ego fragility cannot tolerate the slightest offense.
– Robert Greene
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
– George V. Higgins
When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.
– Shannon L. Alder
A self centered person is like a rusty trophy sitting on the shelf waiting to be admired.
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
– Hsi-Tang Chih Tsang
The ego is the false self – born out of fear and defensiveness.
– John O’Donohue
Letting go of your ego opens the door to taking a new and creative course of action.
– Suzanne Mayo Frindt
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
– C.S. Lewis
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
– Robert H. Schuller
If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
– Douglas Adams
If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
– Arnold Bennett
I feel so trapped, by my ego.
– T. Scott McLeod
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
– Ambrose Bierce
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
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
– Diane Black
Humility stands wise while ego stumbles with pride.
When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.
– Radhanath Swami
One of the great self-deceptions – and one of the great foolishnesses – is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.
– Nathaniel Branden
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 is the seeker but does not want the truth.
– Maria Erving
Mastery passes often for egotism.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ego is recessive in wisdom.
– Toba Beta
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
– Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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
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
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
– Wallace D. Wattles
People will come up with extraordinarily convoluted theories to avoid admitting that they have been wrong about something.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
– Thomas Carlyle
Who is right is less important than what is right. When the focus is who, it’s mostly on you. Your desire to be right even when you’re wrong. This can lead to thinking the world should work in a way it doesn’t. Outcome over ego.
– Shane Parrish
The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.
– Maria Erving
Egotism is contagious.
– Dharminder
People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.
– Gina Lindley
If there’s anything that bothers me, it’s one person demeaning another.
– Fred Rogers