The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, “Modular Career Design

If somebody’s offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I’ve got the ego to say, ‘I’d like a shot at that.’

Neither apology nor kindness can demolish the wall of hatred when built, by choice, on a base of self-centeredness & from the bricks of ego!

About the Ego. There are two fields in which it operates and so, it has two meanings,

Tried a lot,but can’t find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living...

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by...

Don’t the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven’t yet investigated? And don’t those people who aren’t able to escape the...

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life’s problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is...

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Los grandes hombres son grandes hasta que lo saben. Los santos son santos hasta que lo saben.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what...

The poor girl ws keeping that student’s letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too,...

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway…Awakening does not feed ego’s needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn’t...

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to...

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

Always try coercing others proves one doesn’t want to change himself.(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).

The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego.

It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no...

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn’t a bad thing. It’s when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize...

Blessed are those who do not feel stressed with jealousy seeing the growth of a truly and richly deserving person, and not necessarily ones who remain always nattily and richly dressed.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone’s behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it’s not personal,...

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

La persona que tú mismo sientes ser, de acuerdo con los Sufis, es una falsa persona que no tiene una realidad verdadera.

memang harus menurunkan ego untuk bisa berkolaborasi dengan baik

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just...

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Unbelievable,” I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone’s breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want...

Spacebar,” trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I’d played it.But it was still catchy.Whoever had written this song had known what...

Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not...

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not...

Because it’s indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody...

To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached, he is freed indeed!

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic,...

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to...

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.