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"Ego" Quotes

"Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything."

― Rumi

"Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything."

― Rumi

"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

― Muhammad Ali

"It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring."

― Muhammad Ali

"When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble."

― Muhammad Ali

"The ego is not master in its own house."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer."

― Sigmund Freud

"The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct."

― Sigmund Freud

"Where id was, there ego shall be."

― Sigmund Freud

"It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."

― Sigmund Freud

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

― Sigmund Freud

"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."

― Sigmund Freud

"The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it."

― Sigmund Freud

"Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation."

― Sigmund Freud

"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."

― Sigmund Freud

"At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away."

― Sigmund Freud

"Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world."

― Sigmund Freud

"There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle."

― Sigmund Freud

"The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."

― Sigmund Freud

"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id."

― Sigmund Freud