Top 40 Ego Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

2. “Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Complaining Quotes

3. “A man asked Lord Buddha “I want happiness.” Lord Buddha said – first remove “I” that’s ego. Then remove “Want” that’s desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness”.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes

4. “Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace”. Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place”.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Yoga Quotes

5. “My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.”

— Renzo Gracie

6. “When the ego dies, the soul awakes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

7. “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.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes

8. “Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Quotes About Water

9. “Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

10. “Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.”

— Clint Eastwood

Also featured in: Quotes About Listening

11. “Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes

12. “Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

13. “Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser – having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!”

— Donald Trump

Also featured in: Real Quotes

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. “The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.”

— Byron Katie

16. “The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.”

— Pema Chödrön

17. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Important Quotes

18. “Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.”

— Donald Trump

19. “The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Quotes About Body

20. “The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.”

— Joseph Campbell

21. “One of the ego’s favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.”

— Ram Dass

Also featured in: Doubt Quotes, Path Quotes

22. “Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Humility Quotes

23. “I have an ego the size of a small planet.”

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Douglas Adams

Also featured in: Important Quotes

25. “The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”

— Eckhart Tolle

26. “Where id was, there ego shall be.”

— Sigmund Freud

27. “I would prefer not to.”

— Herman Melville

28. “The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”

— Deepak Chopra

29. “The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what’s already there.”

— Marianne Williamson

30. “A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Progress Quotes

31. “Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

Also featured in: Hero Quotes

32. “The ego is a tool. You don’t separate it. It’s a tool for the spirit.”

— Ram Dass

33. “The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”

— Alan Watts

34. “Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.”

— Ram Dass

35. “All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Real Quotes

36. “Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Loyalty Quotes

37. “Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

— Terence McKenna

38. “In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”

— Sigmund Freud

39. “Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won’t. It prefers to be unnamed.”

— Terence McKenna

40. “The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.”

— Sigmund Freud