Ego Is My Enemy Quotes

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

Renzo Gracie

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Luis Gerardo Mendez

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Eckhart Tolle

#10. 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

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

Rumi

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Aftab Alam

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Kevin Ansbro