Through loving devotion, their ego evaporates.
—The Guru Granth Sahib Sacred Text of Sikhism
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
—Lucille S. Harper American Freelance Writer
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.
—The Vedas Sacred Books of Hinduism
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
—George V. Higgins (1939–99) American Crime Novelist
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
—Eckhart Tolle (b.1948) German Spiritual Writer, Public Speaker, Spiritual Teacher
If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) British Novelist, Playwright, Critic
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
—Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American Dramatist
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
—Colin Powell (1937–2021) American Military Leader
The ego is not master in its own house.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.
—The Guru Granth Sahib Sacred Text of Sikhism
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
—Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
—Bill Maher (b.1956) American Comedian, TV Personality, Social Critic, Author, Actor
About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.
—Abraham Maslow (1908–70) American Psychologist, Academic, Humanist
All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
—Ross Perot (1930–2019) American Businessman
It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.
—Common Proverb
About the Ego. There are two fields in which it operates and so, it has two meanings: (1) Self-love, Ahamkara, the ‘Dehatma’, Body-consciousness, the Exterior I, and (2) the Inner ‘I’, the Pratyag-Atma.
—Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) Indian Hindu Religious Leader
When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish.
—The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture
As William Penn put it: “Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” Remember… that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American Poet
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
—Colin Powell (1937–2021) American Military Leader
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
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