As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
Wayne Dyer
If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.
Bhagavad Gita
When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.
Rig Veda
The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin Powell
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.
Wayne Dyer
Through loving devotion, their ego evaporates.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
The sickness of my ego has been dispelled, and my pain is over and done.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Clare Boothe Luce
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
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot