Edgar Mitchell Quotes

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.