Edwin Lefevre Quotes

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)

I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

The enemy is always in the mind.

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

God defend me from myself.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.