Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Williams

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

Sylvester Stallone

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Robert Kazinsky

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

Robert H. Schuller

Big egos have little ears.

Robert Anton Wilson

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Terence McKenna

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Ram Dass

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

Shunryu Suzuki

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Rumi

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Rumi

Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

Tom Robbins

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

Quentin Crisp

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Sigmund Freud

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Sigmund Freud

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.

Sigmund Freud

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

Sigmund Freud

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

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

Walt Whitman

I know perfectly well my own egotism.

Rod Steiger

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Willa Cather

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

Wayne Dyer

You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!

Ryan Seacrest

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Rudolf Steiner

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Wayne Dyer

So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.

Wayne Dyer

If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.

Wayne Dyer

When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.

Tony Yayo

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

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.