Egotism Quotes
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If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity. (Quote by - Zimmermann)
The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotismöshe disliked them all. (Quote by - Charles Percy)
The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves. (Qutoe by - La Rochefoucauld)
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Egotism is an alphabet of one letter. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
Mastery passes often for egotism. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. (Quote by - Brian Aldiss)
The Beloved becomes a mirror reflecting the secret face of the mystic lover, while the lover, purified of the opacity of his ego, becomes in turn a mirror of the attributes and actions of the Beloved. (Quote by - Ibn al-'Arabi)
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. (Quote by - Barbara Stanwyck)
Those who have realized the Truth are at peace throughout the four ages. Subduing their egotism and desires, they keep the True Name enshrined in their hearts. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going. (Quote by - Guru Gobind Singh)
My performances have finally caught up with my ego. (Quote by - Ato Boldon)
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality. When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about. (Quote by - Keith Haring)
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called "egolessness."(Quote by - Sogyal Rinpoche)
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. (Quote by - Joseph Priestley)
The weakness of humanity is our blindness, a cultural blind spot which some call ignorance, in which a selfish and immature ego claims the world as ours and prevents us from seeing ourselves as a part of the world. Kinship with all life is a biological (evolutionary) fact, but our culture ways of doing, perceiving and relating, blind us to this reality. (Quote by - Dr. Michael W. Fox)
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Lord burdened one with egotism. He alone is born and dies; He alone comes and goes. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Practicing egotism and selfishness, they try to impress others by showing off. They perform all sorts of rituals, but they gain no acceptance. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
If there is an enemy, it is the ego. If there is a devil, it is the ego. Every obstacle is created by the ego, for the ego. Every obstacle. The ego can be overcome, and in so doing are you made free. That is the way. (Quote by - Stefan Nadzo)
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. (Quote by - John Bradshaw)
People are incarnated in heaven and in hell. In egotism, they come and go. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. (Quote by - William Osler)
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
Egotism is the anesthetic which nature gives us to deaden the pain of being a fool. (Quote by - Dr. Herbert Shofield)
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. (Quote by - George V. Higgins)
In the woods we return to reason and faith. Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. . . . The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people. (Quote by - Saint Theophan the Recluse)
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it. (Quote by - Bobby Darin)
An egotist is a self-made man who worships his creator. (Quote by - John Bright)
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Where id was, there shall ego be. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
I have searched in vain, and I am so confused; in this darkness, I cannot find the path. In egotism, they cry out in pain. Says Nanak, how will they be saved?. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue. (Quote by - Guru Gobind Singh)
People serve the True Guru only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated. Nanak has met the Guru; all his sufferings have come to an end. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Those who subdue their egotism, come to know the three worlds. Then, they die, never to die again. They are intuitively absorbed in the True One. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves. (Quote by - Huston Smith)
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of "I", "me", and "mine" to be united with the Lord. This is the supreme state. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality. (Quote by - Bhagavad-Gita)
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? (Quote by - H. Ross Perot)
Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds. (Quote by - Guru Gobind Singh)
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. (Quote by - Frank Leahy)
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. (Quote by - L.A. Safian)
When egotism and duality are eradicated, one intuitively merges in peace. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. . . . Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. (Quote by - Jean Arp)
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Overcome your egotism, O perishable bride, and walk in the Guru s Way. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class. (Quote by - Mary Rinehart)
Acting in egotism, so very many have died. After making mistakes, they later repent and regret. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. . . . you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide. Because he or she knows you through and through, since he or she is you, your guide can help you, with increasing clarity and humor, negotiate all the difficulties of your thoughts and emotions. . . . The more often you listen to this wise guide, the more easily you will be able to change your negative moods yourself, see through them, and even laugh at them for the absurd dramas and ridiculous illusions that they are. . . . The more you listen, the more guidance you will receive. If you follow the voice of your wise guide . . . and let the ego fall silent, you come to experience that presence of wisdom and joy and bliss that you really are. (Quote by - Sogyal Rinpoche)
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself. (Quote by - Dan Post)
What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing. (Quote by - LaVell Edwards)
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Organismic awareness is what we - on the Ego Level - ordinarily, but clumsily, refer to as seeing, touching, tasting, smelling and hearing. But in its very purest form, this "sensual awareness" is non-symbolic, non-conceptual, momentary consciousness. Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless. Just as organismic awareness knows no past or future, it knows no inside or outside, no self or other. Thus pure organismic consciousness participates fully in the non-dual awareness called Absolute Subjectivity. (Quote by - Ken Wilber)
Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. (Quote by - Constantin Brancusi)
I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known. They will not be ashamed to say to themselves and to their fellows that God and his work come first. When they can develop the faith and the courage to make this acknowledgment, self-sufficiency and egotism will be replaced by humility of spirit. The brotherhood of man will become real to them. Their service will be ennobled, and they will lay the foundation for the attainment of the highest rewards and blessings vouchsafed to humanity. (Quote by - Stephen L. Richards)
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride. (Quote by - Vincent Lombardi)
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness." When you live in the wisdom home, you'll no longer find a barrier between "I" and "you," "this" and "that," "inside" and "outside;" you'll have come, finally, to your true home, the state of non-duality. (Quote by - Sogyal Rinpoche)
The ego is not master in its own house. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Those who go around acting in egotism are struck down by the Messenger of Death with his club. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)
The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Placing mind and body in offering before the Lord, they conquer and eradicate egotism from within. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects, and less of ourselves. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. (Qutoe by - Debord, Guy)
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! (Qutoe by - Bierce, Ambrose)
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette. (Quote by - Gordon B. Hinckley)
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. (Quote by - Bellamy Brooks)
Cruelty, attachment, desire and egotism - there is great hunger in these, like the raging torrent of a wild stream. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. (Quote by - Madonna)
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. (Quote by - Anatole France)
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. . . . Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. (Quote by - Dean Acheson)
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average. (Quote by - Mark Leary)
Engrossed in egotism, the world perishes. Without the Guru, there is utter darkness. In emotional attachment to Maya, they have forgotten the Great Giver, the Giver of Peace. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness. (Quote by - Roger M'Ckuen)
The egotistical are engrossed in egotism, ensnared by the intellect of the mind. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. (Quote by - Harold S. Geneen)
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
The Pure Lord removes the filth of egotism, and we are honored in the True Court. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
I know perfectly well my own egotism. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. (Quote by - Satya Sai Baba)
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
It all worked out - I was saved, and the egotism within my heart was subdued. The evil energies have been made to serve me, since I placed my faith in the True Guru. I have renounced my useless schemes, by the Grace of the True, Carefree Lord. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Those who act in egotism, selfishness and conceit die; what do they gain?. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, she wanders around the world, but her wealth and property will not go with her. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. (Quote by - Jerry Lewis)
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
O camel-like mind, you were once very pure; the filth of egotism has now attached itself to you. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
The kings act in egotism, and undertake all sorts of expeditions. But through their egotism, they are ruined; they die, only to be reborn over and over again. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Following the Smell of Flowers As told by Taisen Deshimaru Roshi A master was walking in the mountains. When he came back, one of his disciples asked him: "Master, where do you go to walk? "In the mountain" Answered the master. The disciple insisted, "But what path did you take? What did you see?" The master answered, "I followed the smell of flowers, and I wandered with the young shoots." We must let ourselves be guided by the dharma of the Buddha and have confidence in the grass and the flowers that grow, without goal or ego, naturally and unconsciously. The master's answer flows from the spring of wisdom. True wisdom is created beyond knowledge and memory. (Quote by - Roshi)
What will the world be quite overturned when you die? (Quote by - Epictetus)
Those who practice severe austerities without following the scriptures, with hypocrisy and egotism, impelled by lust, and attachment; / Senselessly torturing the elements in their body and also Me who dwell within the body; know these ignorant persons to be of demonic nature. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest. (Quote by - Willard Scott)
Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism. (Quote by - William Strunk)
In egotism, all must account for their actions. In this accounting, there is no peace. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Burnt by egotism, one forgets the Lord from his mind. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. (Quote by - Gilbert Chesterton)
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. (Quote by - John Milius)
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. (Quote by - Lucille S. Harper)
Forever and ever, You are the only One; You set the play of duality in motion. You created egotism and arrogant pride, and You placed greed within our beings. Keep me as it pleases Your Will; everyone acts as You cause them to act. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. (Qutoe by - Pascal)
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. (Quote by - Diana Black)
The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
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. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear. (Quote by - Guru Gobind Singh)
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Through self-realization, people dwell within the home of their inner being; egotism and desire depart. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. (Qutoe by - Mizner, Wilson)
The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction. (Quote by - Johnny Blood)
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil may care attitude toward responsibility, and their disinclination to earn an honest dollar. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Nothing is more to me than myself. (Qutoe by - Max Stirner)
The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. (Quote by - George V. Higgins)
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... (However) names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
I always thought I should be treated like a star. (Quote by - Madonna)
Mastery is often taken for egotism. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. (Quote by - William James)
I like the moment when I break a man's ego. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray. (Quote by - Ibn Ata'Allah)
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness. (Quote by - Coltvos)
Subduing egotism, the rigid doors are opened. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
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. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)
Among their attributes: renouncing both worlds from their hearts, and preferring their brethren among God's creatures to what they possess; relying upon God Most High in all their affairs; being content with everything that happens to them which the ego detests; and bearing patiently sufferings and separation from one's homeland. They dissociate themselves from creatures without believing that there is evil in them, but rather out of preference for the Creator over creatures. They sever relationships, surmount obstacles, and strive in fulfilling the needs of people after emptying themselves: for whosoever strives to do that before emptying himself is actually seeking leadership and a good reputation. (Quote by - Ibn Ata'Allah)
Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself Dan Post. (Quote by - Dan Post Quotes)
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dalí – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?(Quote by - Salvador Dalí)
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
By Guru's Grace, the Lord comes to abide in the mind, and the filth of egotism is dispelled. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
God, the Merciful, has Himself bestowed His Mercy. He has totally removed the poisonous pollution of egotism. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be. "The Selective Ego," Ego, entry for Oct . (Quote by - James Agate)
That scholar who is full of greed, arrogant pride and egotism, is known to be a fool. So read the Name, and realize the Name, and contemplate the Guru's Teachings. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)
When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!(Quote by - Maria Montez)
Love is an egotism of two. (Quote by - Henri La Salle)
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
