Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joss Whedon

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

Kim Kardashian

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

Ramakrishna

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

Ramana Maharshi

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

Ramana Maharshi

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises

Ramana Maharshi

The source of the ego is God.

Ramana Maharshi

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

Radhanath Swami

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Lily Tomlin

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

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.

Rick Pitino

Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

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.