Quotes about Ego
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
— William Hazlitt
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
— Maya Angelou
A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
— Marianne Williamson
The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.
— Max Lucado
Pride is the archenemy of ministry.
— Beth Moore
Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art
— Steven Pressfield
Give the act to me. Purged of hope and ego, Fix your attention on the soul. Act and do for me.
— Steven Pressfield
Here's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. The fight is between the two. The Self wishes to create, to evolve. The Ego likes things just the way they are.
— Steven Pressfield
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
— Samuel Rutherford
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
— George Clooney
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
— Ezra Taft Benson