Quotes About Maan

#1. Awareness' will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means 'I did'. Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others 'I did it myself', is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman).

Dada Bhagwan

#3. It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

Harbhajan Singh

#4. A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a "Gnani" [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan

#5. If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Anger protects pride (maan). Deceit (kapat) protects greed.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, "Who is here the sheykh?" he would answer him "I am he.

Charles M. Doughty

#10. Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Dada Bhagwan

#11. In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

Carrie Underwood

#14. God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.

Jim George

#15. It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.

Irena A. Hoffman

#16. In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

Daniel Radcliffe

#17. All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Plotinus

#18. I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

Joan Larkin

#20. The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the 'charge' mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the 'discharge' mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#22. Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

Kofi Annan

#23. I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.

Dave Morris

#24. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan