Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Robert Adams

There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

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.

Ram Dass

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

Shunryu Suzuki

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Penelope Keith

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Pema Chodron

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

Pema Chodron

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Pema Chodron

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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.

Jacque Fresco

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

Miles Davis

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Marcel Proust

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

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.

Martin Parr

I am what I photograph.

James Joyce

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Sharon Horgan

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Marianne Moore

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Max Planck

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Max Lucado

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

Jonathan Ames

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Quentin Crisp

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

Pankaj Mishra

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

Martin Buber

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.