Top 37 ego quotes and How to be Egoless

in this article, you will find my top favourite 37 ego quotes curated for you. being egoless has a deeper meaning and this is where most people have got it wrong. 

Ego is when you put yourself in the first-person thinking and everyone else is third-person.

This is where you just them from their behaviour but refused to be judged because you always act for your ‘reasons’. In other words, you put yourself in your own shoes and think from your side rather than from other people’s point of view. Your awareness is focused on your own emotional comfort and how you perceive other people

ego definition

ego is creating an own conscious identity of yourself or an emotion which is subjected to keeping oneself at the topmost priority over others. Although you cannot completely destroy your ego, instead you have to learn to live with it, you have to understand the difference between an egoistic character and with someone who has an open mind. ( As explained below ).

Top 37 Ego Quotes

1. Don’t Consider yourself too special, when you do that you think yourself as a too important person, but not everyone will treat you like that, remember

2. A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul~Jillian Michaels

3. Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying~ St. Vincent de Paul

4. Silence is the respite of the confident and strong~Ryan Holiday

5. Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale~Adlai Stevenson

6.Destroy your illusions so you can see reality. Destroy your fears so you can take risks. Destroy your ego so you can see life~Maxime Lagacé

7. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’~Friedrich Nietzsche

8. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal~Ray Dalio

9. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. Steven Pressfield (The War of Art)

10. The bigger your heart, the more you love, the more you control your life. The bigger your ego, the more you’re scared, the more others control your life~Maxime Lagacé

11. The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself~Byron Katie

12. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself~Michel de Montaigne

13. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself~Friedrich Nietzsche

14. 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

15.It’s the sense of superiority and certainty that exceeds the bounds of confidence and talent~Ryan Holiday

16.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

17.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

18.Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space~Diana Black

19. Less ego, more excellence. Less talk, more do. Less rude, more polite. Less fear, more wins~Anonymous

20. Do things that feed your soul, not your ego and you will be happy~Anonymous

21.Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself~Eckhart Tolle

22. Conquer and tame the ego~Angelica Hopes

23. The ego is always looking to find something – the spirit can see what’s already there~Marianne Willamson

24. The ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image, it is your social mask, it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power because it lives in fear.”~Ram Dass

25.Soul over ego~Anonymous

26.Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it~Colin Powell

27.Spiritual transcendence is transforming the rigid ego attachments into acceptance of self and others~Lynne Namka

28.He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle~William Shakespeare

29. Ego judges and punishes. Love forgives and heals~Anonymous

30. Work for a cause, not for applause~Unknown

31. Be capable of negating your ego~Robert Greene

32. The ego isn’t a real thing, it’s just the unexamined mind~Thibaut

33. Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution~Robert H. Schuller

34. Celebrate, but not too loudly. Be proud, but not for too long~Maxime Lagacé

35. Ego trip: a journey to nowhere~Robert Half

36. The ego is not master in its own house~Sigmund Freud

37. Big egos have little ears.~Robert Schuller

How To Be Egoless – 3 Main Ideas

• Choosing an ego-free environment: According to James Clear, the author of Atomic Habit. He stated that – We people usually Do things not because of what we are but where we are. If you stay in a friend circle circled by a mindset of neuroticism or egocentric philosophies then you will gradually become like them. Therefore choose an environment that teaches you to on how to direct your emotions in a better way and where you can contribute as well.
• Meditation and mindfulness aids ego: At its core, the ego is a falsification of reality. What meditation and mindfulness help us do, is helping us see things as they truly are, without judgement or attachment. I’ve found that practising quiet moments of introspection is one of the best ways to see things clearly and to avoid the urges of giving in to the ego.
• Choose Compassion and gratitude: Putting yourself in other people’s shoes, seeing things from their perspective and practising gratitude have been described by many famous minds as another method to eradicate the ego. Following this can be as easy as taking 5 minutes in the evening to list 3 things that you are grateful for today. Surprisingly, I’ve also found that the best gift we can give others is to do and work on things that that we truly love. I had previously confused this with ego when self-love and doing what we love is the exact opposite – living without ego. A great quote on this from the Dalai Lama:

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“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you’ll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do.”