We all have that little voice inside us – the ego. It’s like our personal cheerleader, sometimes a bit too loud! But, it’s important to strike a balance. Our ego can be a powerful force, but it’s also a tricky one to manage.
In this collection of ego quotes, we’ll explore the wisdom of keeping our ego in check and finding harmony between confidence and humility. These quotes remind us that sometimes, the best way to shine is by taking a step back and letting our actions speak for themselves.
So, let’s dive into these friendly reminders about the delicate dance with our egos. They’re here to inspire self-awareness and encourage a more balanced approach to life
- A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. Jillian Michaels
- Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right. Mike Maples Jr
- There’s no ego when you’re a ukulele player. Jake Shimabukuro
- We’d rather protect our ego than be happy. Shane Parrish
- Fragile egos make for fragile friendships. @TheStoicEmperor
- Truth above everything. Naval Ravikant
- Drop ego and listen. Empathize. Naval Ravikant
- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
- There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. Laurence J. Peter
- Men learn while they teach. Seneca
- Work for a cause, not for applause. Unknown
- Ego is a drug. Use in moderation, if at all. Lex Fridman
- Ego takes everything personally. Eckhart Tolle
- Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr
- Egotism sucks us down like the law of gravity. Cyril Connolly
- The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal. Rumi
- Pride goes before destruction. Aesop
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman
- The walls of pride are high and wide, can’t see over to the other side. Bob Dylan
- We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. Winston Churchill
- Ego is the enemy. Ryan Holiday
- Be capable of negating your ego. Robert Greene
- The ego isn’t a real thing, it’s just the unexamined mind. Thibaut
- It’s better to be ignorant than wrong. Shane Parrish
- Outcomes over ego. Shane Parrish
- Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ego trip: a journey to nowhere. Robert Half
- The biggest ego trip is the trip of being “a good person.” Naval Ravikant
- Live life to express, not to impress. Unknown
- Starve your ego. Feed your soul. Unknown
- Bragging dims the soul. Unknown
- Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. Ray Dalio
- Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. St. Vincent de Paul
- The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal. Pema Chödrön
- Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence. Naval Ravikant
- Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. Zen proverb
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman
- You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
- Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Bruce Lee
- He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. William Shakespeare
- Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. Stephen King
- 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
- 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
- You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better. Ryan Holiday
- Silence is the respite of the confident and strong. Ryan Holiday
- None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. Benjamin Whichcote
- My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy. Renzo Gracie
- When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
- Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. Adlai Stevenson
- The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself. Byron Katie
- 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
- If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus
- We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. Rabindranath Tagore
- Let us be more simple and less vain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The loudest in the room is the weakest one in the room. Frank Lucas
- 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 biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. Criss Jami
- On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. Michel de Montaigne
- Where id was, there ego shall be. Sigmund Freud
- I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. Michel de Montaigne
- When the ego dies, the soul awakes. Mahatma Gandhi
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
- Rule your mind or it will rule you. Buddhist saying
- 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
- It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am. Muhammad Ali
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Benjamin Franklin
- If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Marina Abramovic
- 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
- 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
- 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 DyerReceive without pride, let go without attachment. Marcus Aurelius
- I like the moment when I break a man’s ego. Bobby Fischer
- 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
- A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress. Ayn Rand
- Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. Clint Eastwood
- 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
- 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
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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
- Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. Marcus Aurelius
- The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. Albert Einstein
- The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. Muhammad Iqbal