Ego Quotes - Page 11

• This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

  Carlos Condit

  Sports, Practice, Mma

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• Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Art, Humility, Mma

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• By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

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• I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff."

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Reputation

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• Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Humility, Buddhism

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• The only guys that make it through are the guys that make it through are the guys that have a complete control of their ego where they tap out in the beginning, all the time, you're always losing in the beginning... Your ego can get bruised if you don't have control of it. So what ends up happens is Jiu Jitsu is the ultimate douchebag filter.

  Eddie Bravo

  Mma, Guy, Douchebags

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• My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Humility, Men

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Texas, Who I Am

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Humility, Buddhism

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• When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

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• You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Crowds

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• When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Soul

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• Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Selfless

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• The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Stuff, Versions

  Source: collider.com

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• The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

  William O'Neil

  Pride, Simple, Ideas

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• I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

  Robert Maxwell

  Lasts, Ego Trip, Last Time

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• The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

  Craig Stone

  Bridges, Dolls, Looks

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• I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

  Jonathan Coulton

  People, Way, Honest

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

  Leonard Jacobson

  People, Clue, Prison

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• In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, People, Interesting

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Acceptance, Knowing

  "Concerning the Our Father". "Waiting on God". Book by Simone Weil, Routledge & Kegan Paul edition, p. 153, 1972.

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• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Italian, Names

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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