Ego Is The Enemy Quotes

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

Kevin Ansbro

#2. 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

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

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Every guitar has a personality.

Jol Dantzig

#5. 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

#6. As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

Paulo Coelho

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

Idries Shah

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

Renzo Gracie

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

Nikki Sixx

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

Rumi

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Masanobu Fukuoka

#13. Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

Ruth Ozeki

#14. Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

Ray Bradbury

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

Aftab Alam

#16. Pegasus's dad was poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mom was Medusa, and evil Gorgon who had fangs and lizard skin and living snakes for hair. And you thought your family was weird.

Evan Kuhlman

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

Jaggi Vasudev

#18. I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Salman Rushdie

#19. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

#20. Burn turned to the doorway, his expression not exactly welcoming. "Finished sulking, have you? Pay your respects to our little heroine. She saved our lives." "I know," was the sour response.

T.L. Shreffler

#21. 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

#22. It was a cold, bleak December morning in Alaska, a place so far north on planet Earth that if there were such things as popsicle people, they could live there quite comfortably.

Dew Pellucid

#23. The world is always full of promise.

Iris Apfel

#24. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

Pete Seeger

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

Sally Field

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

Luis Gerardo Mendez

#32. Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

William Deresiewicz

#33. 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

#34. Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

Angie Stone