Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Scherzinger

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

Mary Lou Retton

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

Marianne Williamson

The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.

Norman Cousins

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

Norma Shearer

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Nolan Bushnell

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Rick Pitino

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

Edward de Bono

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

Eckhart Tolle

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

Eckhart Tolle

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Jonathan Ames

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Tennessee Williams

Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.

Terence McKenna

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

Simone Elkeles

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

Simon Cowell

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

Swami Vivekananda

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

Swami Vivekananda

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

Swami Vivekananda

This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

Swami Vivekananda

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

Swami Vivekananda

Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

Swami Vivekananda

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

Rajneesh

God is the collective ego of the world

Rajneesh

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

Rajneesh

You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it.

Rajneesh

My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.

Rob Schneider

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

Walter Russell

The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Yehuda Berg

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.