Ego Enemy Quotes

#1. The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Idries Shah

#2. It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

Peter Thiel

#3. Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.

Eraldo Banovac

#4. One's ego is the enemy of objectivity.

Kevin Ansbro

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

Jaggi Vasudev

#6. If you learn to laugh at yourself, you'll be entertained for a lifetime.

Lee McLaughlin

#7. At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life
at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

Abelardo Morell

#8. Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path

Aftab Alam

#9. The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Mickey Mantle

#10. 19Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot.

Anonymous

#11. The heart that loves the wicked ego creates the hated enemy.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#12. The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Rumi

#14. Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Nikki Sixx

#15. My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

Renzo Gracie

#16. Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

#17. The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Ramana Maharshi

#18. And the ego's greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

Robert Thurman

#20. The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

Rajneesh

#21. Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

Eliza Green

#22. The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."

Sharon Gannon

#23. The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#25. You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

Ben Kingsley

#26. The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

Luis Gerardo Mendez

#28. My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.

Zach Braff

#29. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

#30. The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud