Rajneesh Quotes

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

I have to humble myself.

A little humility never hurts.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

I learned that you've never made it, you've never arrived, you're never too good, you're never above anybody else.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.