Quotes from the book "Ego Is The Enemy" - Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday's books never fail to captivate. It offers a fresh and much-needed perspective that resonates deeply. One of the most powerful quotes comes at the end: "Just as dust collects on the floor, ego will cloud your judgment. As you must sweep the floor daily , you should check your decisions for ego." This analogy serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of continual self-awareness and humility in our daily lives.

• Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.
• Football coach Bill Walsh explained, "self-confidence becomes arrogance, assertiveness becomes obstinacy, and self-assurance becomes recless abandon." This is the ego, as the writer Cyril Connolly warned that "sucks us down like the law of gravity"
• If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
• Humble in our aspirtations. Gracious in our success. Resilient in our failures.
• We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.
• Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned.
• Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves.
• What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.
• Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
• A man's best treasure is a thrifty tongue.
• Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.
• A man is worked upon by what he works on.
• Think about this the next time you face that choice: Do I need this? or is it really about ego ?
• There is an old saying "say little, do much"
• To tell yourself that every second not spent doing your work, or working on yourself, is a waste of your gift.
• Find what nobody else wants to do and do it.
• Produce more than everyone else and give your ideas away.
• The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.
• I have observed that those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who "keep under the body"; are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed patient, and polite
• A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
• Our imagination - in many senses an asset - is dangerous when it runs wild.
• As success arrives, like it does for a team that has just won a championship, ego begins to toy with our minds and weaken the will that made us win in the first place.
• Ego wants us to think, I'm special. I'm better. The rules don't apply to me.
• Man is pushed by drives, but pulled by values - Viktor Frankl.
• Myth becomes myth not in the living but in the retelling.
• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
• If I am not for myself who will be for me ? If I am only for myself, who am I ?
• Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back.
• The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.
• He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.
• And why should we feel anger at the world ? As if the world would notice.
• What do you dislike ? whose name fills you with revulsion and rage ? now ask: Have these strong feelings really helped you accomplish anything ?

Happy Reading !!!