Ego Problem Quotes

• If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Feels, Ifs, Offended

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• The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Aim

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Mirrors, Attention

  "History as Literature".

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• Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Business, Goal, Cry

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• Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

  Bill Maher

  Worship You, Religion, Faces

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  Yehuda Berg

  Self, People, Levels

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• Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.

  Christine Feehan

  Worry, Littles, Pounds

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.257, Penguin

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• The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

  Criss Jami

  Challenges, Feelings, Arrogance

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Frustration, Order

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• Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Egomaniacs, Hollywood

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