Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

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.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.