It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Buddha
When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
Andrew Murray
The gulf left by the absence of ego is quickly filled with knowledge.
Shane Parrish
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
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichcote
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
Pema Chödrön
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
Renzo Gracie
Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.
John Boyd
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Steven Pressfield
Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence.
Naval Ravikant
Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal.
Ray Dalio
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
St. Vincent de Paul
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
Let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Receive without pride, let go without attachment.
Marcus Aurelius
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.
Jillian Michaels