Michael Jackson Quotes

When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

God defend me from myself.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

There never was a war that was not inward.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

His has a rigidity, an arrogance, and an obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.