Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joni Mitchell

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Kevin Spacey

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Gavin DeGraw

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

Northrop Frye

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Norman Mailer

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Oliver Stone

My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.

Emile M. Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Epictetus

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Joe Vitale

The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

Benjamin Disraeli

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Tim Nelson

He was telling us that it's an ego thing. That's a lot of money to spend to play.

Dr. John

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

A lot of other places I've worked at are incredibly ego-driven.

All of our egos were flushed down the toilet after that game. We were knocked down from riding that high horse.

James O'Shaughnessy

The model never varies. It never has an ego problem; it never has a fight with its spouse; it never wants to prove that it's right. The model is never hung-over after a night of partying -- it just does the same thing, time and time again. Very boring, very profitable.

You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.

Herman Melville

I would prefer not to.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.

George Eliot

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.

Jaime Lerner

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Iyanla Vanzant

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Iyanla Vanzant

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

Jeff Bridges

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Jeff Jarvis

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

Jada Pinkett Smith

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

Jim Carrey

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Christine Feehan

Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.