EGO QUOTES – Your ego is your conscious mind, the part of your identity that you consider your “self.” If you say someone has “a big ego,” then you are saying he is too full of himself. The word ‘ego’ is a Greek word for ‘I,’ meaning the core sense of self, a distinct and unique expression of personhood. Here are some ego quotes which you would love to recite and reuse…
-Maxime Lagacé
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. -Friedrich Nietzsche 
Your ego screams for people to acknowledge you. But you must do nothing. Take it. Eat it until you’re sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder. -Ryan Holiday 
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. -Pema Chödrön 
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. -Rainer Maria Rilke 
The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself. -Byron Katie 
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. -Muhammad Iqbal 
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. -Benjamin Whichcote 
Where id was, there ego shall be. -Sigmund Freud 
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. -Michel de Montaigne 
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -Friedrich Nietzsche 
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. -Adlai Stevenson 
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you. -Eckhart Tolle 
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. – Albert Einstein 
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk food. -Anne Lamott 
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. -Benjamin Franklin 
The gulf left by the absence of ego is quickly filled with knowledge. -Shane Parrish 
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. -Andrew Murray 
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. -Steven Pressfield 
Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. -John Boyd 
Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. -Ray Dalio 
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. -Marcus Aurelius 
It’s the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent. -Ryan Holiday 
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. -Pema Chödrön 
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. -Eckhart Tolle 
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. -Wayne Dyer 
Your ego is your self-image created by thought. It’s your social mask requiring validation because it lives in fear of losing its sense of identity. -Thibaut 
When the ego dies, the soul awakes. -Mahatma Gandhi 
Rule your mind or it will rule you. -Buddha 
It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. -Muhammad Ali 
I like the moment when I break a man’s ego. -Bobby Fischer 
The foundation of the Buddha’s teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion. -Dalai Lama 
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. -John Lennon 
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. -John Lennon 
I don’t care what you think unless it is about me. -Kurt Cobain 
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. -Clint Eastwood 
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. -Winston Churchill 
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. – Harry S. Truman 
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -Colin Powell 
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. -Albert Einstein 
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. -Mark Twain 
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. -William Shakespeare 
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. -Bruce Lee 
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. -Stephen King 
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn’t care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. -Ernest Hemingway 
The walls of pride are high and wide, can’t see over to the other side. -Bob Dylan 
Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. -Naval Ravikant 
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy. -Renzo Gracie 
A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. -Jillian Michaels