Top 100 Ego Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”

— Ayn Rand

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

— Nouman Ali Khan

3. “Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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4. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

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5. “When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

— Alan Watts

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6. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand

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7. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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8. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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9. “Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

10. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

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11. “Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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12. “The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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13. “Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

— Osho

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14. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

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15. “Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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16. “Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.”

— Will Smith

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17. “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”

— C.G. Jung

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18. “A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

— George R.R. Martin

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19. “Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there’s only one of me.”

— Linus Torvalds

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20. “The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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21. “It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.”

— Byron Katie

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22. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

— Ayn Rand

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24. “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

— Ayn Rand

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25. “I am the best in the world at what I do.”

— Chris Jericho

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26. “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”

— Jay-Z

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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28. “You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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29. “Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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30. “When I say or do something I do it, I don’t give a damn what you think, I’m doing this for me...”

— Eminem

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31. “The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.”

— Ram Dass

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32. “I live for myself and answer to nobody.”

— Steve McQueen

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33. “An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.’”

— Ayn Rand

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34. “I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”

— Ayn Rand

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35. “Trust me. I’m a genius.”

— Eoin Colfer

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36. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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37. “Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

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38. ““Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.””

— Charles Bukowski

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39. “Don’t take life too seriously and have fun. Don’t waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.”

— RuPaul

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40. “He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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41. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”

— Salvador Dalí

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42. “I am the best. There is nobody better than me.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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43. “When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.”

— Mae West

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44. “Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”

— Ayn Rand

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45. “Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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46. “If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.”

— Ramana Maharshi

47. “Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself – and there isn’t one.”

— Wei Wu Wei

48. “The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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49. “A strong egoism is a protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

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50. “Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”

— Jay-Z

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