Top 100 Ego Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty.”

— Muhammad Ali

52. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

53. “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”

— Ayn Rand

54. “You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

55. “If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.”

— Kanye West

56. “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don’t tell me I can’t do something. Don’t tell me it’s impossible. Don’t tell me I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

57. “That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”

— Eckhart Tolle

58. “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

59. “We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend.”

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

60. “You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you’re the best and that you’ll win every time.”

— Magnus Carlsen

61. “This god, this one word: I.”

— Ayn Rand

62. “Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.”

— Buddha

63. “I’m sure that I’m a winner. I’m sure that I win more than I lose.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

64. “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

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

— Renzo Gracie

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

67. “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

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

69. “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

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

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Eckhart Tolle

72. “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

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Byron Katie

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

— Pema Chödrön

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Joseph Campbell

80. “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

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

— Ram Dass

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

— Alan Cohen

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Douglas Adams

85. “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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Ayn Rand

88. “I would prefer not to.”

— Herman Melville

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Paul Tudor Jones

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

— Ram Dass

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Pema Chödrön

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Sigmund Freud

99. “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

100. “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