Dilip Kumar Quotes

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

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

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

Power won't change me.

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