Brian Ortega Quotes

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Observe all men, thyself most.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

My ego has been in check for a long time.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.