Quotes about Ego

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad. The desire to save face trumps the desire to make the right call.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

I don't want to seem cocky like I can't lose.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo — even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism thinking (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, with me or against me, and most of the time you'll be wrong.