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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“The sacrifice our ancestors gave yesterday
Gave us today and our tomorrow”
― Stephen Robert Kuta, Selina's Letter, Tales of Suicide from Victorian and Edwardian London

“It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you know where you are from, it is harder for people to stop you where you are going.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

“A bush with strong roots stands better than a tree with weak ones.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Those who have subdued their ego understand that it doesn’t degrade you when others treat you poorly; it degrades them.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more “Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.” It’s rarely the truth: “I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“When we remove ego, we’re left with what is real. What replaces ego is humility, yes—but rock-hard humility and confidence. Whereas ego is artificial, this type of confidence can hold weight. Ego is stolen. Confidence is earned. Ego is self-anointed, its swagger is artifice. One is girding yourself, the other gaslighting. It’s the difference between potent and poisonous.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“When success begins to slip from your fingers—for whatever reason—the response isn’t to grip and claw so hard that you shatter it to pieces. It’s to understand that you must work yourself back to the aspirational phase. You must get back to first principles and best practices.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is work to be done. Work doesn’t want to be good. It is made so, despite the headwind.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success. It repulses advantages and opportunities. It’s a magnet for enemies and errors. It is Scylla and Charybdis.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room—until you change that with results.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“You must practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote. It’s easy to be emotionally invested and infatuated with your own work. Any and every narcissist can do that. What is rare is not rawtalent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“One might say that the ability to evaluate one’s own ability is the most important skill of all. Without it, improvement is impossible. And certainly ego makes it difficult every step of the way. It is certainly more pleasurable to focus on our talents and strengths, but where does that get us? Arrogance and self-absorption inhibit growth. So does fantasy and “vision.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“It’s a temptation that exists for everyone—for talk and hype to replace action.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. —MARCUS AURELIUS”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Take inventory for a second. What do you dislike? Whose name fills you with revulsion and rage? Now ask: Have these strong feelings really helped you accomplish anything? Take an even wider inventory. Where has hatred and rage ever really gotten anyone? Especially because almost universally, the traits or behaviors that have pissed us off in other people—their dishonesty, their selfishness, their laziness—are hardly going to work out well for them in the end. Their ego and shortsightedness contains its own punishment. The question we must ask for ourselves is: Are we going to be miserable just because other people are?”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“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.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later. It’s worth saying: just”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Living clearly and presently takes courage. Don’t live in the haze of the abstract, live with the tangible and real, even if—especially if—it’s uncomfortable. Be part of what’s going on around you. Feast on it, adjust for it. There’s”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“With accomplishment comes a growing pressure to pretend that we know more than we do. To pretend we already know everything.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words. —RAINER MARIA RILKE”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy