One of the major differences between men who make valuable contributions to mankind and those who merely take up space in the world, is mainly a difference in egos, because the ego is the driving force behind all forms of human action.
Liberty and freedom of body and mind—the two major desires of all people—are available in exact proportion to the development and use one makes of the ego.
Every person who has properly related himself to his own ego has both liberty and freedom in whatever proportions he desires.
A man’s ego determines the manner in which he relates himself to all other people.
More important than this, it determines the policy under which a man relates his own body and mind, wherein is patterned every hope, aim and purpose by which he fixes his destiny in life.
A man’s ego is his greatest asset or his greatest liability, according to the way he relates himself to it. The ego is the sum total of one’s thought habits which have been fastened upon him through the automatic operation of the law of Cosmic Habitforce.
Every highly successful person possesses a well-developed and highly disciplined ego, but there is a third factor associated with the ego which determines its potency for good or evil—the self-control necessary to enable one to transmute its power into any desired purpose.