Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Robert Adams

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

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.

Val McDermid

When all else fails, go for the ego.

Steven Tyler

I can't live off the ego.

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.

Taylor Hackford

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Stuart Wilde

Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

Stuart Wilde

Do things the ego does not like to do.

Stuart Wilde

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

Stuart Wilde

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

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.

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.

Zig Ziglar

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.