“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, ,kindly things for others.”
B. C. Forbes

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
John Lennon

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.”
Warsan Shir

“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
Hugh Prather

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
Simon Cowell

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts

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

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
Ken Adam

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson