Patrick Lencioni Quotes

I think my worst enemy is me.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

Every man is his own worst enemy

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

God save me from myself.

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.